Nigeria @57: Losing Focus?

It is pathetic that after this long period, we are still like we havent started. Nigeria is greater than this and the problems of this country can be best tackled if we set our priorities straight.

 Put a ban on corruption and watch what happens next. Let corruption be treated as a punishable offence by death and see if their divide and rule tactics will still continue. Our leaders have used this tactics to keep the populace deceived into believing that we are Ibos, Hausas, Niger Deltans etc. instead of being Nigerians first. These leaders have been using this method to control the masses and artfully invent a number of distractions to keep the populaces at loggerhead. These distractions are designed to keep the masses’ attention away from the leaders’ deceptions so that the masses do not expose their wickedness.

 I read this statement somewhere ‘We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us’ and thought deeply about how we have been so divided in every facets of lives.  Our nation is historically one of the main dimensions where people are socially differentiated through class, religion, region, tribe, language and ‘gender’. 

While this or other forms of differentiation exist in every human societies, it becomes a problem when one or more of these become the sole basis of governance, politics, economy and access to valued resources like wealth, income, power and prestige. We have been so deceived and this divide and rule tactic continues to have a huge regulatory influence on us as we quarrel, argue, take sides and fight amongst ourselves instead of fighting for a common cause. 

With love @Independence.