₦airaland Forum

While there are some that are doggedly patriotic they still need encouragement.

The government must focus on giving people reason to love Nigeria again

Today while we hear of corruption everyday in ( taking our patriotism away ). If you don't manage your fight against corruption well. It will make people feel you are very corrupt.

And when people feel you are very corrupt. At best they will appreciate the president but the country will be seen as very corrupt

That may be beneficial to the president but not to the country. The style of leadership that will take Nigeria out of the woods will not be conventional

This is because the Nigerian issues are not usual issues

And they are issues unique to Nigerians

We need the Nigerian solutions that are intellectually based.

For instance, l have always said that our colonial masters forced the system of democracy on us

Our culture is not democratic

It is autocratic. It shows in our homes. We are not natural democratic.

Our King's were autocratic. They were worshipped by the people. The only thing that kept them at Bay was the chief priest.

This culture of deifying our leaders is still in us.

You see all these issues in this country and you can just imagine how people just massage the ego of the president when they are with him. It is a cultural thing

So the colonial masters removed the chief priest and gave us a paper as a law. While the culture of Kabiosi and worshipping of our leaders remain.

Let us bring back the chief priests.

Don't swear with the Bible or Quran again. Ofcourse the law will remain but let the chief priest do his thing before you take an aoth that you will do the right thing.

And if you don't do the right thing. You will run mad.

They will sit up

That is the only way to handle this matter

We need new approach

We need intellectually motivated ideas

We need to accept the kind of people we are.

And come up with ways that can manage us.

What we are currently doing now is not working

The structure is wrong. It is just too big. No single person can manage the issues of 200 million people.

It is like wanting to kill 200 goats. And you have 10 butchers. The lead butcher retains all the 10 knives.

And when the other 9 butcher ( governors ) asked for their knives ( power ) the lead butcher ( president ) says no. I have to have all the knives so you ( governor ) won't kill me

At the end of the the aim of butchering the goat is confusion.

This is the story of Nigeria. The president has too much power/ time that he can't use

We need restructuring of Nigeria.

The leaders are too far away. He is hidden. He is always in the dark and you know what happens in the dark. Give the leaders that are close to me power/funds/responsibility