Making the case for coolective contribution to Nigeria
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:46 pmMaking the case for our collective contributions to Nigeria.
Older people hold on to old habits unless they migrate to new environments and or exposed to better ways of doing things which they accept or are conditioned to accept. Old countries like ours have a culture that has sustained generations which has not been supported and nurtured to adapt to making a greater society. It is impossible to move everyone to new environments but we can be exposed and conditioned to adopt some borrowed culture that will benefit our society like countries all over the world that continually assimilates newer culture that benefits their society in order to adapt to newer ways of doing things (technology).
Today I call on every Nigerian in diaspora to find time from their busy schedule to participate, to inform, and to contribute to our nation. It is a general assumption that everyone knows and understands what each one of us knows. Each one of us have unique talents otherwise we will not have electricity, vehicles, and airplanes today. It is also generally assumed that leaders of a nation should know what to do. Each leader comes to power for different interests and objectives. The environment; a conditioned and structured society will surely make a great leader and thwart the bad. Let us all use our individual special talents, be it in our profession, our thoughts, and or observations from our new found environment to collectively inform and support our country.
Most of us are rightfully disappointed, ashamed, and sometimes have denied her. However we all have relatives that still reside there and this is the only land that is for Nigerians. No matter where we live our children will always wonder why and how is the place we originated like this? What is and was our individual and collective contribution to support it? I am sure we all wonder what our fore fathers did individually and collectively during slavery.
The premise is to inform and support our society to structure our culture. Each one of us just wants food, shelter, and security for ourselves and family. The goal is to structure the society so that we can produce to meet our needs, exchange our production with the least interruption, and have security of our spoils, property, and life.
Please come with all your contributions. Inform, educate and support us so that tomorrow there will be no reason for our children to ask why and how of the society we originated. If there was a reason to ask we may say, we contributed all we could.
These are some suggestions:
(1) Information.
(a) Inform us about the best ways to communicate with each other and with the society at large. It seems we do not have the information structure. A society cannot function unless the people within speak in words they can hear and most importantly understand.
(b) Educate us on how to develop the structure to communicate with our leaders and how they can communicate with us. We all know they owe us a lot of explanation and we have a lot to say. No leader can direct her people unless the people are fully informed and engaged. When we understand where we are going we will participate, contribute, and support.
(c) Teach us, the people about democracy from its origin and our individual role in it. Tell us what we are doing right or wrong to affect the judicial system, the electoral system, the political system, the economic and the social system.
(d) Inform us of different methods and means, we the people, can nudge our political leaders in the right direction when it is necessary to express our displeasure to their actions and deeds.
(2) Production and its exchange.
(a) Teach us how to inform our people and our government officials the importance of education and its relationship to production. The importance of work training required prior to graduation, the support required after graduation to produce. The structured support from learning to actual production of goods and or services produced
(b) Let us educate ourselves about all the requirements and the means for exchanging our goods and services produced with the least interruption. The cost effect of our small market to exchanging our total production, our roads, and limited asses to capital (credit), continual interruption of electricity and the cost to the nation in production, the structure of identification system that can be verified, stored, and retrieved which will support smooth transition in exchanging production. Educate us of all the required ways to condition our society to conform to the rules of trade.
(3) Security.
(a) The worst feeling for any individual in a society, is to feel alone and insecure. How do we develop the structure and impress it on our people and our government the importance of security? Please join us in a very serious dialogue in the development of security structures that is urgently needed for the safety of our family, our neighbour, our community and our property. Let us impress the importance of security of binding contractual obligations and the security of justice for all in our daily production and exchange of our goods and services
(b) The most horrific institution in Nigeria today is the police force. How do we support them to get out of the misery they find themselves? They are underpaid, despised, disrespected, and used to creating chaos that is makeing our society dysfunctional to keep us distracted and poor. We must find the means to inform, educate, and support them. Please join us this profession must fully participate in a greater Nigeria. Let us have a dialogue on how we can attain this objective. It can be done.
(4) Continuity.
(c) Every one of us wants continuity in our lives. The confidence of continual income, maintenance of our health and longevity of live, protection of our property, provisions for our family while alive or passed away. We need to demonstrate to power the importance of structuring, disciplining, educating, and informing both the industry (insurance companies) and the people the importance of participation and reliable relationship.
You are welcome to introduce new topics. These are only the foundation that is required to enable growth. I encourage you to use this forum as a venue to engage, to inform, to educate, to inquire, to learn and to contribute. In each one of us come unique knowledge, ideas, and thoughts which we often dismissed as universal or simply put aside, however it is the combination of these little simple unique things that become great unique things. Successful people are assumed to be lucky but they were prepared for the opportunity when it arrived.
This forum is not a venue to disrespect the people and the leaders of the country and we ask that you not be condescending. Please use simple grammar that all your readers will understand this is their forum. Come with all that you have bundled up in your mind without any interruption and collectively we can inform, educate, direct, learn and support ourselves and political leaders to attain the society we all desire. Hopefully the political leaders will use this venue as another venue to inform, educate, organize, and direct us. Please join us.
Older people hold on to old habits unless they migrate to new environments and or exposed to better ways of doing things which they accept or are conditioned to accept. Old countries like ours have a culture that has sustained generations which has not been supported and nurtured to adapt to making a greater society. It is impossible to move everyone to new environments but we can be exposed and conditioned to adopt some borrowed culture that will benefit our society like countries all over the world that continually assimilates newer culture that benefits their society in order to adapt to newer ways of doing things (technology).
Today I call on every Nigerian in diaspora to find time from their busy schedule to participate, to inform, and to contribute to our nation. It is a general assumption that everyone knows and understands what each one of us knows. Each one of us have unique talents otherwise we will not have electricity, vehicles, and airplanes today. It is also generally assumed that leaders of a nation should know what to do. Each leader comes to power for different interests and objectives. The environment; a conditioned and structured society will surely make a great leader and thwart the bad. Let us all use our individual special talents, be it in our profession, our thoughts, and or observations from our new found environment to collectively inform and support our country.
Most of us are rightfully disappointed, ashamed, and sometimes have denied her. However we all have relatives that still reside there and this is the only land that is for Nigerians. No matter where we live our children will always wonder why and how is the place we originated like this? What is and was our individual and collective contribution to support it? I am sure we all wonder what our fore fathers did individually and collectively during slavery.
The premise is to inform and support our society to structure our culture. Each one of us just wants food, shelter, and security for ourselves and family. The goal is to structure the society so that we can produce to meet our needs, exchange our production with the least interruption, and have security of our spoils, property, and life.
Please come with all your contributions. Inform, educate and support us so that tomorrow there will be no reason for our children to ask why and how of the society we originated. If there was a reason to ask we may say, we contributed all we could.
These are some suggestions:
(1) Information.
(a) Inform us about the best ways to communicate with each other and with the society at large. It seems we do not have the information structure. A society cannot function unless the people within speak in words they can hear and most importantly understand.
(b) Educate us on how to develop the structure to communicate with our leaders and how they can communicate with us. We all know they owe us a lot of explanation and we have a lot to say. No leader can direct her people unless the people are fully informed and engaged. When we understand where we are going we will participate, contribute, and support.
(c) Teach us, the people about democracy from its origin and our individual role in it. Tell us what we are doing right or wrong to affect the judicial system, the electoral system, the political system, the economic and the social system.
(d) Inform us of different methods and means, we the people, can nudge our political leaders in the right direction when it is necessary to express our displeasure to their actions and deeds.
(2) Production and its exchange.
(a) Teach us how to inform our people and our government officials the importance of education and its relationship to production. The importance of work training required prior to graduation, the support required after graduation to produce. The structured support from learning to actual production of goods and or services produced
(b) Let us educate ourselves about all the requirements and the means for exchanging our goods and services produced with the least interruption. The cost effect of our small market to exchanging our total production, our roads, and limited asses to capital (credit), continual interruption of electricity and the cost to the nation in production, the structure of identification system that can be verified, stored, and retrieved which will support smooth transition in exchanging production. Educate us of all the required ways to condition our society to conform to the rules of trade.
(3) Security.
(a) The worst feeling for any individual in a society, is to feel alone and insecure. How do we develop the structure and impress it on our people and our government the importance of security? Please join us in a very serious dialogue in the development of security structures that is urgently needed for the safety of our family, our neighbour, our community and our property. Let us impress the importance of security of binding contractual obligations and the security of justice for all in our daily production and exchange of our goods and services
(b) The most horrific institution in Nigeria today is the police force. How do we support them to get out of the misery they find themselves? They are underpaid, despised, disrespected, and used to creating chaos that is makeing our society dysfunctional to keep us distracted and poor. We must find the means to inform, educate, and support them. Please join us this profession must fully participate in a greater Nigeria. Let us have a dialogue on how we can attain this objective. It can be done.
(4) Continuity.
(c) Every one of us wants continuity in our lives. The confidence of continual income, maintenance of our health and longevity of live, protection of our property, provisions for our family while alive or passed away. We need to demonstrate to power the importance of structuring, disciplining, educating, and informing both the industry (insurance companies) and the people the importance of participation and reliable relationship.
You are welcome to introduce new topics. These are only the foundation that is required to enable growth. I encourage you to use this forum as a venue to engage, to inform, to educate, to inquire, to learn and to contribute. In each one of us come unique knowledge, ideas, and thoughts which we often dismissed as universal or simply put aside, however it is the combination of these little simple unique things that become great unique things. Successful people are assumed to be lucky but they were prepared for the opportunity when it arrived.
This forum is not a venue to disrespect the people and the leaders of the country and we ask that you not be condescending. Please use simple grammar that all your readers will understand this is their forum. Come with all that you have bundled up in your mind without any interruption and collectively we can inform, educate, direct, learn and support ourselves and political leaders to attain the society we all desire. Hopefully the political leaders will use this venue as another venue to inform, educate, organize, and direct us. Please join us.