NATION BUILDING:

Nation building has never been easy – On a boat ride round Manhattan in July of 2015, looking at the Manhattan skyline, I thought to myself – this was not gifted to the young American nation - each building was built brick upon brick, girder upon girder.

Interestingly some 10 minutes later, the tour guide said of New York:

“African labourers built this City” - he was being respectful of course – he could have said African Slaves, which would still have been respectful, or simply SLAVEs built this city….

His name is George – Gray line – ask him what he meant.

In Nigeria, we must realise that nation building is a privilege and that corruption thrives when the government of the day abandons nation building and pursues a pleasurable existence for its members.

When no nation building is being undertaken, there will bea semblance of abundant riches and limitless wealth – all false.

With free cash floating around, private jets were everywhere....in the case of Nigeria, it’s president perhaps deceived into thinking that he presided over a wealthy nation…slept!

With no public infrastructure spending, there would be a semblance of wealth! False wealth.

Nigeria's GDP was even re-based to take account of new services such as telecommunications and film production.

The stupendous figure which resulted deceived it's inattentive Chief executive into believing, the rebased GDP figures somehow represented income… sales…

Whatever the reason for inaction, With no public infrastructure spending, There will be a semblance of wealth because the less you do with your money - especially when you have made no plans, the more you find you will have 'spare cash".

In nations, which have fail to plan and build the infrastructure required to maximise human and natural resources, corruption is an epidemic!

The question is:

Which came first: Corruption or the failure to plan?

With the progressive failure of our educational system, corruption has taken on cataclysmic proportions… and without quality education, we have no hope.

We must therefore:

Build roads for our young to travel on,

Build schools to educate our young,

Enforce building codes, provide affordable housing, for the comfort of our kids

Build a judiciary which will vouchsafe the sanctity of their God given rights

Build and bequeath to them a police force worthy of them….

Create an economy, which will generate enough wealth to maintain and sustain the infrastructure we have built…. for our kids...

It can be done!

It literally isn’t rocket science!!!