Nigeria: The Road Rage Factor (II)

opinion

Why can Nigerian government not afford mere airport trolleys at all its airports? Why can the private sector not donate? Compared to the other airports of the world, why does ours have to become more, not less, expensive to travel through? Are we aware of the intense economic and aesthetic competition in the world and are we positioning ourselves at all?

The people in government think some of us just like to criticize them. But not all of us are destructive critics. Our role is to assist, and one has no country but this one. Those in government, and their friends, are too close to the problem to see what is wrong. It is easy to be antagonistic at that level, though we know that running a government is no easy task. The 'transformation' promised by this government is a tall order. Indeed it doesn't seem like they have any idea what that word really means in the Nigerian context. You can only transform from within. And for a nation like ours, we are coming from such a deficit position, that what we need for now, is really NORMALCY. I would offer further psycho-analysis of what it is that needs to be transformed; the Nigerian people.

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