[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The humiliation, disunity and alienation from community governance brought upon our ancestors and introduced into Nigeria’s political leadership structure by European and Arab adventurists as in all other African countries continue to play out its negative constructs in the country.
The grinding and pervasive moral and financial corruption burdens evident in Nigeria of today, stem from the critical question of “Who owns Nigeria? Or “who is a Nigerian first before tribe?” This sense of confusion and the feeling of lack of ownership of our collective aspirations as Nigerians can be traced to non-recovery from the trauma of our dislocated history leading to hopelessness. Our value systems have been greatly eroded such that corruption, nepotism, ethnicity, religious bigotry and extremism, and economic sabotage are now a norm.
Beyond words, we shall drive an Arise Nigeria Campaign to reverse this state of hopelessness that has seduced the young, vibrant and resourceful segment of our population into embracing such notions noted by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Former Finance minister such as:
- “Hard work did not pay, rent-seeking behavior is what paid: you could get rich overnight by not being productive.
- Honesty was not the best policy, corruption was rewarding, and there were no sanctions for any misconduct. You could get away with anything as long as you knew important people.”
Through a consultative and evidence-based approach we will launch the Arise Nigeria campaign aimed at engineering a social construct and moral rearmament programme to return our peoples to our valued based, community orientated philosophy of problem solving and peace building. With the Arise Nigeria Campaign, our goal will be to be tell the citizen Don’t fix the blame; fix the Problem!
Our dream is of a New Nigeria, one where moral and financial corruption will be fiercely opposed by the majority. We will place the battle for the hearts and minds of Nigerians on a war footing to reclaim our cultural and community space for the Nigeria founded on equity, justice and the celebration of our diversity, a country with a confident, resilient and aspirational citizenry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
