Wednesday, 22 June 2011

WE ARE GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER

WE ARE GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER
I hope my observation is not skewed. My observation is: Precedence is set and the wagon of moral rot is moving at high speed. I have also observed that, our current leaders are not quotable, they mostly hit from the heap.
What for example would this lesson teach us, the children who are watching and learning from both their words and action?
The present Nigerian political leadership is uninteresting and uninspiring. They currently simply operate from a materialistic point of view. They are words and deeds show little in as far as our vision and anticipated future is concern. It only demonstrates that we are indulging in the present.
However, events nowadays showed that our political leaders acted worse with opportunistic concentrating only on political point scoring. They keep promising and the poor keep hoping.
My logic tells me that to turn around the situation we have to emphasise on education, entrepreneurship, discipline, and ethics in governance, moral regeneration and productive patriotism. It would be better to encourage unity against poverty.

As it is now we are disintegrating by the lead of our government; our words are shallow and lack wisdom. Instead of inspiring us to better our lives, our leader’s words frustrate us and inspire our racial anger; make us feel guilty, inefficient, in adequate and unpatriotic. They make us hate, not love, aggressive not humble.
Our leadership have failed to inspire a mentally attitude to build our lives. It does not encourage us to feel capable and able. In short, they do not inspire hope in us.Our political leaders in general are mostly approaching issues two dimensionally. They seem to be draining their energy focusing on trying to get into government, rather than focusing on shaping the thinking of the Nigerians so that Nigerians can be self sufficient. Even those that are within the ruling party, who are level headed like something else, make statements which are merely meant to appeal to the public, rather than words that can transform and inspire the public.
Maybe you are asking, what exactly are you looking for?
 Compare the wisdom of their words and see which you find wanting. We must just accept that we have taken a wrong turn and are in need to stop and reassess ourselves. We need to make a quick U turn. We need to reshape the way we see the world.
A friend recently asked me I have a feeling that the current leadership we have cannot make the turn we wish to make, this call for a completely different way of doing things. We need new hands.
The change we need can be agitated by individuals outside the formal organizations that are stifled with power struggles and bureaucracies.
The situation calls for the modern radicals that will portray an unapologetic attitude. People who are not primarily motivated by wanting to be in government. These are the type of activists that will be able to shake the core of the society and return it to its original form.
Fearless, ruthless, principled and dangerously motivated by the eager to see the lives of Nigerians improve for the better. Maybe we can turn the tide and start to be better.
Let’s join hands together to make a better Nigeria!

Oluwatomilola K. Boyinde

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