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Reparation? Not the Problem!

posted on Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:40 AM

Reparation? As much as I hold dearly the ideals of Fawehinmism and believe strongly in the struggles of the West African Bar Association's President Chief Femi Falana for Justice and Equity in Africa's Growth & Development, i totally disagree with him on Africa's Reparation by the West. In actual fact, Africa's solution is not embedded in Foreign Financial Aid. We need to start looking-in for solutions to our problems.

Truly, the West has done great harm to Africa through Slavery, colonialism and the diverse ways of neo – colonialism that we experience in recent times. But the truth is we have become so wicked and lazy in proffering solutions to our problems as long as we keep blaming the west for our woes. We have had more than enough opportunities to salvage our continent’s economic and governance problems.
Corruption and misappropriation of funds would not just let us be. In a continent were politicians steal money with impunity. Was it not in this country (Nigeria) that one head of states stole the money that would have passed for the nation’s 3year budget? There is so much wickedness everywhere, individuals under the pretentiousness of leadership would sit tight and hold the entire nation and its citizenry to ransom.

A leader knows he is a non-performer, instead of resigning he/she would hold on to power with so much amount of energy and the citizens would do little or nothing to get rid of him. I find it difficult to believe that President Yaradua is still sitting tight, with all the failure that is going on in all spheres of the government and the nation’s economy. It is very imperative to note that i voted for him, i gave him the mandate alongside other Nigerians (whether he stole others' is entirely an issue for another discussion) and i expect all of us who are not feeling the impact of his administration to stand up and call for his resignation or mobilise our representatives in the national assembly to impeach him/ prevent him from holding us to ransom for another 4years, in 2011.

Here comes another issue of great concern, who should be the next president of the black most populous nation – Nigeria, does an Ibrahim Babangida qualify? Or an Atiku, Buhari, Pat Utomi, Rochas Okorocha, Donald Duke among a few others. Who has the solutions to Nigeria’s problems?
There is a total disconnection of Leadership and leadership values among the old and young today. Nigeria and Nigerians have come of age, we need a true leader who is not accidental, because the history of Nigeria’s leadership shows that almost 98% of Nigerian presidents got into power accidentally and the tread has been on till date.

The big poser now is; who is this great leader that we need, where can we find him, do we need to build an institution of training were we can always pick good leaders, or is it the followership that needs to change their following approach?

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