No nation has ever survived it as a result of her
government’s insincerity and neglect. Such nations with high negligence and
insincerity are bound to fall or break apart. The several uprisings in the
world today especially in the Northern African and the Middle East are as a result of bad leadership
and insincerity in governance. Nations like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya can surely testify to this.
Sincerity in Homes and
families
Charity the say begins at home. The basic education pasted
unto a child begins at home. Nigerian homes must therefore learn to be sincere
and honest in their discharge of duties starting from the home, to their
respective places of works and worships. If moral ethics is raised to project
sincerity, the nation will surely stand. Parents and the religious bodies and
congregations should take the lead in raising a better home, and the society at
large.
Sincerity in
Leadership
Sincerity indeed has a vital role to play as the foremost
step to take before any other measures. The government must be frank, tasted
and trusted. In the recent past the trust by the international community and
even the citizens of Nigeria is poorly rated and yet to improve
if only the confidence placed on the Nigerian government is restored. Nigerian
government must prove to her citizenry and the international community that the
biggest in her yearly fiscal budget which centers on security is ensured to
masterly identify and further protect the lives of her citizenry and visitors.
The government should prove to the Nigerian people of their transparency in
governance and further cause the citizenry to feel a sense of belonging as
citizens and not as foreigners. The Executives, Judiciary and the Legislative
councils should stand as beacons of true leadership. All these must be achieved
first as a result of sincerity in leadership of the Nigerian nation.
Embarking on cost
effective projects
The Nigerian government must embark on meaningful projects
that are people oriented gearing towards benefiting the citizens of the
country. White elephant projects will only plunge the nation into darkness.
Cost effective projects must be put to cut down the high cost of living and
improve the standard of living. Cost effective projects should be put to see to
proper maintenance of the oil industry through resuscitation of the indigenous
refineries, stabilization of the education system, bringing stability in the
power generating sector, provide and steadily maintaining quality health care
facilities, proving quality road network, providing and maintaining government
public infrastructures, providing job opportunities for the teaming youths and
seeing to the overall steady functioning of the entire system.
Government programme
and the media
Hence all these are put in place; further sincere projection
like campaigns on sensitization about government programme will give way to
re-orientation of the general public via public awareness by the media.
Nigerians will surely rejoice to see the government working with sincerity than
believing mere advertisement on the media. The media in the other way should
truly stand for sincerity on the information they disseminate to the general
public.
Recently, China prohibited lots of TV programmes impelling
moral standards of her citizens. Such idea should be borrowed by the Nigerian
government to abolish junk movies, music and print media that are constantly
dumped on the Nigerian borders causing great psychological and health havoc on
the Nigerian people. In this respect, stringent rules must be placed by the
censorship board to eliminate or completely ban the importation or release of
such obnoxious media content. In the same vein, piracy must be strictly
checked. Qualitative and educative programmes gearing towards building up
characters and personalities should be encouraged and ensured as a standard in
the Nigerian public and private media industry.
The Nigerian Security
System
Nigeria plays a major role in the ECOWAS
peace keeping force and deserves respect without much ado. Before the civilian
government in 1999, the security of lives and properties was moderately okay. Come
to think of the internal security system in the country, Nigeria is still placed below the margin
point among the other developing nations of the world. The borders of the
country remain so porous; little wonder then Nigeria remains the safest place to dump
illicit or toxic materials, criminals and people on exile. Hard drug dealers
still strive despite the efforts of the NDLEA (Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement
Agency).
The social security services must work in other to attain
sustainable development. Nigerian government must identify and monitor her
citizens through web based information system like it is practiced in other
parts of the world. In countries like the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Germany children are registered as citizens
from the moment after their conception and are recognized in any part of their
country as far as the web based information system is concern. This goes beyond
producing mere plastic National ID cards for Nigerians. If the government
succeeds in capturing the data of all her citizenry within a specific period of
time, it will automatically help in managing her people’s welfare and reducing
risk in crimes committed within and even outside the country.
An average Nigerian will not fail to mention about insincerity
of and in the Nigerian Police Force. The Police as is usually said are friends
to the citizenry; they are there to protect the lives of citizens. In the case
of Nigeria, many would prefer settling their
cases amicably without involving the police who may cause more cases to
escalate. The Police on the Nigerian roads have been severally accused and
reported of harassing road users and further extorting money from them instead
of doing their main security work. In some cases, police sponsors criminals
leasing their ammunitions and uniforms for their operations. In some other related
issues, criminals bargain with the police to free them of the crimes they are
guilty of and thus, subverting the main focuses on security of lives and
properties. A new bread of law enforcement agencies including the Nigerian Police
Force, Nigerian Custom Services, Nigerian Civil Defense Commission and the rest
must be re-instituted build on trust and sincerity. No such criminal minded
person(s) should be enrolled into any of these law enforcement agencies.
All these centers on sincerity and until the leadership of Nigeria gives way for sincerity to thrive,
no meaningful effort will be made no matter the large amount of resources spent
for the Nigerian nation. The change and challenge is now!
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