Nigeria From The Eyes Of Fredrick Lord Lugard:
Was He Right Or Wrong!
"In character and temperament" wrote Lord Lugard, "the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person. Lacking in self control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past… He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility.(Pg 70 of The Dual Mandate by F.D.Lugard 1926).
I never stop thinking of Nigeria. We have a nation with so much but little to show over 50 years of independence…
What happened? What went wrong? Looking at the past you will agree that we need to go back to the very beginning and fix it…you don’t start building a pyramid from the top, you start from the base…we must start all over again…but we must start with credible leaders who are selfless and are ready to die for what they believe to be true in moving Nigeria to the promised land…its not an easy task, but we must start by resisting the status quo…we must stop giving our leaders excuses to be irresponsible…what will it take to cut down salaries of our representatives? What will it take to stop even the FG from exploiting the very people she claims to be working for? We are buying everything for so much? Our power tariff is one of the highest in the world? Our housing scheme is an apology? Our call tariff is about the highest in the world yet they are planning to start taxing us for making calls? Our roads are not good yet they are planning to start extracting monies from us in the name of speed limiter? What is wrong with our leaders? Individualism? Leadership illiteracy? Pride? Selfishness? Wickedness? Lack of sense of humanity? There is currently no incentives for Nigerians to be good citizens? Its the rat race, everyone is trying to trample on his neighbor in order to make a daily living?
Ultimately, most of our leaders are illiterates of the 21st century! The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. '
Alvin Toffler...
You are an illiterate if you cannot learn, unlearn and relearn…food for thought for those who really want to learn, unlearn and relearn….
Good evening Jos-Nigeria
This is from a Value Based No Excused Leadership Perspective….
Pst Samuel Kyarshik
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