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Nigeria Today!A friend sent this piece his friend in Nigeria sent him, and I would like to share it with you all. Thanks for reading.
Nigeria Today!
The infusion of some Nigerian highly specialised skills personnel in governance may pave ways for weakening of the stronghold the opportunists turned unrepentant capitalists have on the economy. I mean personalities like Okonjo Iweala - Finance Minister and Olu Adeniji - serving Foreign Affairs Minister with some credible home based professionals e.g. Bode Augusto - The DG budget, One Mrs. Ekwuosili- Senior special adviser to president on Economy and or Due process.
I tell you that the bad and corrupt ones around the Govt. are far more than the good ones. I therefore salute the courage of the very few who despite obvious odds still stick on to doing their good job.
With what I have seen and still seeing.. we have a long way to go as a nation. Successive administration in Nigeria gave Nigerians and Nigeria the bad name of being corrupt people and nation.. You may want to ask me why... With what I recently observed in the country where people are offered job for say N120 to 150k P.A and he has to pay N180k P.A. for rent. Feeding, clothing and transport cost are not considered in a country where worker needs about N300 to N500.00 daily for transport. Yet the guy cannot get a better job or pay. He would take up the job just believing that he would survive the year one way or the other. That much is known to the employer and the society. And truly, these sets of average Nigerian workers will actually survive it daily, monthly and yearly.. and we don't even ask questions.
We need to tell ourselves the truth. Let us pay our people well to survive economically for the quality of, and time spent on jobs. With this, people will think twice before engaging in corrupt practices. That is why we hear less of dirty and corrupt acts by Nigerians working in Oil and Banking industries lately. We all know that their pay packs could keep them to survive economically in Nigeria.
The minimum wage in Nigeria is about N7,000.00 per month. What can this do where per liter of petrol averages N45.00, very erratic and destructive (of Electrical equipments) power supply, bad network of roads with very corrupt tempting housing delivery practice of down payment of over $150,000.00 for an average home. Where they say their is mortgage, processing could last 2 years and you will be lucky to get after all.
In effect, the government move to woo Nigerians Overseas to invest in Nigeria may just be one of the solutions to this man made socio-political and economic problem situation the country is facing currently.. Therefore.. please and please come and invite your friends to come too not with the money or capital only but the knowhow of how good ideas could be formulated and executed in a visible value added approach to Nigeria and Nigerians.
Another way to invest in Nigeria is to continue to be very good ambassador of Nigeria wherever you may be. Quality of our character is the first incentive we have to offer other prospective investor to build a critical mass of Nigerian overseas and other foreign nationals investors. We just must be patriotically persuasive in our approach to move Nigeria forward economically.
We need to focus more on the economic management of Nigeria than the politics. I have no doubt in my mind that a strong economy would translate to better political understanding and tolerance among our people. The critical success factor here remain you over there and the rest of us at home. Not and not the crude Oil in Niger Delta, Groundnut in the North or the cocoa in the west.. Quality human Capital is and would remain the answer to our nation's problem.
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