Nigeria
is a country on a precipice. We can
pretend things are different and we can face the reality. It is a matter of choice to face the reality
or fool around with rhetoric.
It
is nice to talk positively about Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan has
said. It is, however, counterproductive
to just talk positive while thinking and acting negatively as is represented by
the abnormal operation of our avowed federal system of government and the
killing corruption in the system of our governance at all levels from the
Presidency to the local councils.
Without
fear of being branded a doomsday prophet, I would state without equivocation
that this corrupt system of things called Nigeria would collapse on the heads
of the present generation unless we make this important decision today to
change the course leading to our falling over the cliff wherewith we have taken
ourselves to.
The
important decisions we have to make to keep Nigeria as one indivisible entity
are:
- Collective repentance from the life of corruption that has eaten deep into our social, political, religious, cultural, tribal and even physical lives.
- Constitutional amendment that establishes true federalism in structural, fiscal, cultural, developmental, political and civil security sense including state police and security forces except the military.
- · Sovereign national conference where all comers would come with open minds without preconditions where conclusions reached would be adopted as the new constitution and the direction of the country.
In
part two of this write up, we would be looking at our collective need for
repentance.
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