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Desperately seeking the Vice President's hearing

Postby nigerian_admin » Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:07 pm

STILL AWAITING THE VICE PRESIDENT’S HEARING
We are where we are today as a country because we are collectively burdened and subverted. Let me give you an example.
It takes almost each one of us about 3hrs to get to work. Some have to leave the house at 4 am in the morning. After an eight hour work day it takes another 3hrs to get home totalling 14hrs out of 24 hrs of the day. We need about 7 hours to sleep which leaves us with 3hours. Many of those in management are about 40 to 50 years old. Some have older parents that are infirmed living with them. There are times that we have to engage with nuclear family or community commitments. Where is the time for the intelligent elite in our country to participate in the affairs of our country?
Each individual provide its own water, electricity, and sewer. We dig wells and sewage about 10 feet from each other and we have yet to realise the danger to our health and of sink holes as we dig these wells sucker ways. There is continual noise pollution and high cost of diesel to provide electricity so we go to bed earlier and expensed time to read, to socialise, and to be informed. We buy all these plastics bags and bottles that liter our landscape which will soon become a major environmental issue very shortly. Look at our hands and feet, they are yellow, and no national medical alert. How better off will we all be if there is collective provision which will cost each of us a lot less, create jobs through the provision of these infrastructures, and make our life better? Have we all gone stupid or mad?
There is no civilized nation that does not protect her citizens. It creates peace and order. How can a country in the year 2015 have no place to call with immediate response to avert, assist, and resolve, the imminent, potential, or present danger. Now I tell you there is something wrong. In every African and Caribbean countries not one country has the structure. Is this part of what makes us poor? Why will I care about my community when my community do not care about me? How can we be directed when there is no conformity that requires checks and order? (When I was talking to a prominent Nigeria about the need for call centers, he replied to my amazement, ‘Of course we have Call centers’ I was a gazed. I responded ‘Do we?’ He replied, ‘for as long as I can remember the only thing is they don’t come’. Now considering this person’s position I left his office wondering for how long our country will be dominated or will implode). The feeling of being alone create chaos, nonconformity to the rules of trade and law, social and economic dysfunction, aggression, confrontation, and violence. How can we fail to understand this simple concept?
In every poor country it is glaring how they create poverty for themselves. There is no housing programs all the houses are like barns, there is no design, houses are not painted, roads are unpaved and rugged. All that is required is to create a housing program. However poor countries fail to commit to a credit system because they are too burdened in their own daily lives. The educated elite failed us. Our institutions failed us. And we all become mediocre. We cannot even create a system that will enable us to exchange our goods and services efficiently and to exchange capital on credit with the least interruption. It takes money to make money we must create the structure that will condition the society to conform. All affluent countries do it. We have to stop this slavery mindset of giving our resources (money) to affluent countries to better the livelihood of their children while our children suffer. We must create the infrastructure that will enable our society to enjoy the fruit of their labour and resources. The future of our children and their children depend on it. These are simple things to overcome considering that humans have colonized space.
We continuously live in a high risk environment without insurance. The insurance premium is unaffordable by the average Nigerian. Majority of us have no insurance further increasing the risk to self, the nuclear family, and the community at large. And the intellectuals, the institutions, and those that their interest is compromised do nothing about it. Who are we and what kind of culture did we inherit or created for ourselves and our children? Something is amiss.
Let me relate a situational example in Canada. When a baby is born here he/she is documented with the name given at the hospital by a birth certificate. The documentation is what the parents use to apply for a social insurance number (national identification number). Prior to leaving the hospital or shortly thereafter different insurance and investment companies (who have immediate daily updated information about new births) contact to provide information on insurance and all other investment opportunities pertinent to the child. The child is insured for life. The parents may choose to invest in RESP program any determined tax free amount of their choice which is appropriated for the child’s education till they are 18 years of age. The government supplement this program with 20% of the parent’s monthly contribution which generates interest till maturity. The government pay each child a monthly $100.00 child allowance and every child’s parents apply child tax credit at the end of the year to reduce taxable income or to collect tax refunds. The point here is the formation of an organization structure. The identification system has started from birth. The future cost to the parents for the child’s education is monthly appropriated plus 20% contribution from the government which combined generates interest for 18 years. The parents are not burdened when the child is ready for University, the child has begun to invest in the country as the country invest in the child, there are relationships developing between the child, the institution, and the government.
At 18 years old, the child becomes an adult who can now legally develop contractual relationships. She is armed with a birth certificate, social insurance number, medical number which she has from birth, driver’s licence if she drives, student number if she is attending school. The child is now readily prepared for economic relationship. We can now engage contractual relationship such as the purchase of a home. A house worth $150,000 with $15,000 down payment and continue escalating to bigger housing as our nuclear family increases in size.
At over 40 years the mortgaged house (abled by the mortgage program) is paid for. The equity on the house can now be invested for economic growth. While working everyone contribute to Canada pension plan and registered retirement saving plan. At age 65 we start to collect CPP, RRSP, and old age pension. An average individual collects $3000.00. When aged and can no longer live alone there are retirement homes that house everyone regardless of income status. And everyone is eligible even if without funds. When this child who is now an adult passes, the life insurance, the debt free house and or business become income for the children left behind. Will all the investment this child has in this country, the expectations from this country, and the return on the investment made, not make this child a patriot that will motivate the child to do all possible to protect this nation and also protect the continuity of this good livelihood?
The system and the structure to get there is foreign but available. It is up to those institutions and intellectuals whose interests are compromised to get motivated. I cannot understand what we are waiting for. Without organization the government cannot direct and support us. We must support them with the tools necessary to organize us. Without Capital (we need more than oil revenue) collective needs cannot be attained. The capital gained from newer structures will need checks, control, and oversight else it will be corrupted.
We all have to do something the future of our children and our grandchildren depend on it. We must reach these people. We need a plan now before we lose all our resources to foreigners. We cannot sustain 80% unemployment and underemployment. We need a plan. If you are an insider reach these lazy people and motivate them. I am willing to come home for a presentation anytime I am requested to do so.
The cost to these stakeholders is totally negligible but the gain is immeasurable. We cannot be lazy with this objective because it will bring us enormous wealth more than imaginable. Trust me. There is wealth wherever needs are fulfilled. Imagine the fulfilment of 170 million needs.

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