by Eze Eluchie
‘Each bag
you handle lifts Kenya higher’
- Inscription
on the luggage handling area at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi,
Kenya.
Message:
Everyone counts. No one is insignificant.
Clearly, in
Nigeria, we missed the road a long time ago. The task for Nigerians as we commemorate
the 55th anniversary of our ‘Flag independence’ (describing what we
have as ‘independence from colonial overlords is grammatically and factually
incorrect), is to retrace our steps and evolve a polity where every citizen
counts and no one group thinks they have a monopoly of any virtue or vice.
We not only do not deserve to be where we are, we are in addition also adversely affecting development across the African continent by our continuing inability to get our acts right.
Let October
1st 2015 be a day we reflect on the best means of a holistic
restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian State.
Picture: National Flag of Nigeria
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