PART-FOUR:PROBLEM -SOLVING WAYS FOR NIGERIANS TO FOLLOW

GINA WEEKEND COLUMN
BY:
HABIBU GENTE
DATE:  Saturday, 20  May, 2017

5.       Patriotic and conscious leadership: Nigeria as a nation need vibrant and active politicians  who are selfish less and patriotic that can hold this country together with their power of political ideas. For so long Nigeria political leaders are too myopic and naïve to think and change the country for better. Nigeria major problems in the last two decades is bad leadership skills and voting of not-ready individuals into critical positions in the government. This issue of incompetent leaders landed us to the land of joke-nation where clueless and insensitive politicians vie with one another presentation of comical political ideas and poor management of public funds in TVs and our mockery-theatre country called Nigeria.
6.        Illiteracy: This disease is one of the most evil thing if exist in excess in any society, it will engineer poverty, self-hatred, and self- destruction which will drive such person into barbarous acts and behavior. And much more consolidate underdevelopment. Bad for the citizens, it will be a tool for selfish politicians to oppress the masses {working class} and eventually deprive them of their least rights {right to free and decent life }. Nigeria politicians and leaders alike hold this precious rights of the citizens knowing too well that whenever they provide sound education for the people {masses} they will be civilized and enlightened enough to see what other countries leaders are doing for their citizens whose interest they represent in government. Thus citizen will be well-informed and be incessant in agitation for their God-given deserved rights. Illiteracy as bad as it may sound to the ears is like a rotting egg in pottery barn if fail to fished it out it will affect the others good ones and the whole eggs will either start smelling and the pottery barn will begin stinking and if someone has to come in your pottery he will not be convinced that it is a single rotting egg that produces the whole stunk that the pottery generate. In Nigeria this is the case because of government inability to deal with alarming rate of illiteracy, and the rotting egg begun to stunk up it appears that all Nigerians are illiterates. If the government did not something about it then, even twenty years to come Nigeria will be rate among the poorest and higher level of illiteracy no matter how developed we may think we are in those years.
7.             Poverty of the masses: poverty as bad it may sound is the root of every wars, riots, conflicts, protests virtually anywhere they occurred. The menace poverty do course is beyond the outer surface its name denotes. That is why most of the developed nations in the world today make it mandatory as first priority to fight and wipe away poverty from their country heart. Because if one person is hungry he will do all evils things you cant imagine with your ordinary sense.If poverty is not eradicated in this country at least to minimum, nothing will work and we will always be in total failure in whatever we try. It is poverty that make many students fail exams, to steal,  it brought rampant kidnapping,  arm robbery , tugging on mother Parks etc.  In fact poverty negative effects are beyond the few things I mentioned.  Because every root of war or civil violence that occurred in any place of the world poverty and hunger has its share contributed towards its incitement and escalation.

8.            Religion tolerance:Their should and most be for every religion rights and tolerance to practice it everywhere in the country. Let everyone have freedom of thoughts and practice his own beliefs system either in single or in congregation, and in private or in public as it is entrenched in the constitution of federal republic of Nigeria.