How to fix Nigeria in 72 hours
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

Nigeria is one of the greatest countries in the world, whose greatness is being held back by numerous self inflicted vices.

While the country is blessed abundantly in all fronts, its greatest undoing is the lack of visionary leadership, which some analysts have described as Nigeria’s natural disaster.

Successive governments in Nigeria have blamed the complexity of the country for their failure in office and some even argued that Nigeria is a difficult country to govern.

However, this piece is not to debate whether or not, Nigeria is a difficult country to govern since every country has their own peculiar difficulties, the focus is to proffer workable solutions that if implemented can set the nation on the path of progress.

To my understanding, any visionary leadership can fix Nigeria in just 72 hours and position the country for greatness.

By fixing Nigeria, I do not mean a sudden transformation from third world to first world.

What I mean is simply to create a structure for progress by building and empowering all citizens to directly or indirectly be part of the nation building process and putting the right people in the right place, to drive the right policies with the required vigor at the right time and create an institutional culture that cannot be reversed.

Without boring you with so much intellectual analysis and academic jargons, let us go straight to the issues that matter and how to fix Nigeria within 72hours.

We must recognize that people, whose tribal and family members were cruelly murdered in the first coup, counter coup, pogrom and civil war are still hurting.

They are all front line victims still hurting from the pains of the past.

Nigeria as a country should offer specific apology and relief to these set of victims and a national apology to all Nigerians, who may have been directly or indirectly affected by these unfortunate incidents.

This singular action will begin the process of leading Nigeria to civil peace.

This action is very important because, it is the first primary duty of Nigeria as a country to protect every citizen from harm, even against themselves and the country failed in that regard.

Nigeria’s greatest challenge is the disconnection between the people and its government.

The people lack outright understanding that they own the government and could dictate what must be done.
This disconnection has made them lack patriotism in the sense that, they do not take ownership of government resources, assets, policies and vision.

Prioritize public information, re-orientation and sensitization through constant engagement for educational purpose on key citizenship concept.

The leader must educate the people to be able to socially mobilize them for joint policy implementation and to instil mass patriotism.

Economic marginalization, extra judicial killings, security high handedness and lack of access to justice had given birth to regional and community terror gangs such as militants, insurgents etc.

Offer sincere apology to all victims and their community.

Offer sincere amnesty to all combatants and demonstrate willingness for true national healing by having open and sincere dialogue about the cause of the problem and give room for joint problem solving.
De-militarize, De-mobilize and reintegrate.

The court is not a place for dispute resolution; it is a place for judgement pronouncement.

And in most cases, judgement is only pronounced in favour of the most intelligent speaker, but only the rich can hire the best speakers.

In addition to this, the slow justice system is a major problem, apart from the excessive concentration on technicalities, thereby loosing the essence of the justice system.

The worst alternative dispute resolution is still a little better than the best court judgement because, ADR does not only resolve the dispute, it unites the conflicting parties.

Center for alternative dispute resolution should therefore be given greater priority in our quest for peace.

ADR centers should be established across all local government areas of Nigeria and empowered with adequate resources to function properly.

The court should be encouraged mostly to handle criminal matters, while ADR centers handle civil matters.

Religion/ethnic sentiment is the order in Nigeria rather than the exception.

This vice drives our politics, policies and conduct in every sphere of life.

Hardly can any policy be discussed without an element of ethnic and religious sentiment.

From Central Bank money printing, recruitment into civil service, security engagement and activities, foreign mission and even achievement of Nigerians in diaspora are all subjected to ethnic/religious interpretation.

If we don’t want the populace to continue to draw wrong ethnic/religion interpretation from our everyday issue, we must give them something else to draw interpretation from by shaping their sentiments with more free thoughts that disrupt their preconceived thoughts.

As we all know, sentiment is part of life and a visionary leadership will understand how to exploit the ethnic and religious sentiment of all sections of its citizens for positive advancement of their interest.

Hamzat is a human right ambassador and Executive Director of Foundation for Peace Professionals.
He can be reached at discus4now@gmail.com

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Oga why dont we reduce it to 24hrs

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A step at a time but progress must definitely be recorded!

Announcement on these should be ASAP:
1. Non negotiable, Buhari should resign from active politics!

2. Creation of state police which is accountable to Federal policing whenever the need arises!

3. In every polling unit just as it is done during election, collate data of INDIVIDUAL to form a national database! Record keeping will not only reduce crime but ease so many things!

4. Every region should manage their resources and pay tax or whatever to the federal government!

5. Federal government to hold AGM/periodical meeting with State government. No 1 agenda: what are your physical achievement within... to ...

6. Put an end to these incessant strikes!

7. You only give what you have! If Nigerians does not have a steady light we have no business selling to other countries!

8. Everybody cannot be involve in AGRIC! For the state or individuals involve provide on subsidized materials needed! Access and availability is very very important!

9.Build universities to meet the needs of people! For instance university for vocational studies, university of Agric, for medicine, engineering, let it focus on the area of our needs as a nation!

10. Governments should hands off religious/traditional activities as we already have leaders in that regard!

11. Very Important, have a federal customer care centre, let there be hotline just like a suggestion box where people can reach government directly to complain of abnormalities and equally make suggestions.

12. Each arm of government websites must always be active and updated EVERYDAY as the activities changes!

Especially FG, it should contain a lot of things like tourist sights and how to get things done in Nigeria!

13. The laws must be specific e.g for instance any one caught in the act of stealing irrespective of who you are goes to 3years jail e.t.c


It might not be in 72hours but we will definitely get somewhere in 72hours

Lemme just book space

This wan dey make noise. Put am there make u see, four years, e go still dey set committee upandan

Story for the God's i aint reading that poo cux Nigeria cant be fixed in 72hrs Mission impossible

who is this guy

we hear you....anyways check out our signature if you down for some 18+ naija contents

72 hours or 72 years ?

Buhari the lifeless dullard has buried Nigeria

Kill all politicians

Oya fix the country

MrThisandthat:
Buhari can never take Nigeria forward

No individual can

summarize please

niceprof:
Oga why dont we reduce it to 24hrs

While we are it, why don't we just go ahead and make it 8hrs.

bilms:
How to fix Nigeria in 72 hours
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

Nigeria is one of the greatest countries in the world, whose greatness is being held back by numerous self inflicted vices.

While the country is blessed abundantly in all fronts, its greatest undoing is the lack of visionary leadership, which some analysts have described as Nigeria’s natural disaster.



https://www.blueprint.ng/how-to-fix-nigeria-in-72-hours/

I stopped reading the article immediately I came across the bold.

What shallow nonsense! Is this buffoon expecting the tribal and religious sectarianism that has always plagued Nigeria to simply disappear because someone commands it? And since when has Nigeria ever been "great"? 72 hours ko, 72 seconds ni!

That's yours. Scatter everything weed off the unwanted, remove all chaffs and rebuild a new nation. Shikena

So Nigeria don turn to computer mother board abi. You can fix it within some hours

Pfft

You can talk the talk.... Can you do the deed

Hahahahaha