We have always told the stories of other successful economies in the world. We have heard several speeches and read several books. We have told several stories and envisioned several dreams but it has always seemed to elude us. The difference we seek to meet every morning that we rise keep eluding us and we wonder several times if we are cursed to have been birthed into this land.
The conscious desire to undergo conscious developments in our society has not been met by the same degree of conscious efforts. While many may argue hitherto that several actions are being frustrated by incumbent government parastatal as well as the societal and economic conditions about, it may also be put forward that nothing comes easy and that Rome was not built in a day.
The need for continual efforts to be put in place cannot be less emphasized but the rate of our movement can only be decried not disregarded. It would be totally folly to say that the country is the same way it was ten years ago. While several changes had occurred, it is not true that no positive development had been undergone, maybe not at the pace at which many of us might have loftily expected.
But I read once on a construction notice
‘’if Rome was built in a day, we would have hired the same engineers”
While the quote combines well sarcasm, it makes good to point out that some things just take time. Warren Buffet was also known to have made the quote that
‘’No matter how great your talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in a month by getting nine women”.
Thus we must put this at the back of our minds whenever we expect miraculous shift from being a developing country to a developed country. We must understand that the change is gradual and it takes the effort of several of us to be development inclined. It is worthy to note that several people who complain about the progress of the country are actually doing one thing or the other to consciously or unconsciously clog the nation’s wheel. Whether in the offices, homes, in traffic and so on, actions debilitating the nations progressed should be curb and those fueling its progress should be encouraged.
The appearance of youth on the political scene is also beginning to reveal that Nigerians may have well decided that it is better to participate than sit on the sidelines. We fear that overtime, youth have always been the seemingly marginalized. However, it is untrue that the chances of the youth are too scarce to be identified. Instead, such chances have been left to fritter away due to the profits accrued from the event of political affiliations. We can then simply hope that we begin to see youth who will not fall to the whims and caprices of their predecessors but hold forth their desire to read rightly and channel their effort to such desires until their aims are duly reached.
Thus effective participation by the youth is pursuing their goals as change agents in this community will effectively see, overtime, a transition in the political consciousness of the people and youth as so, providing the platforms for effective competitions and enable varieties of forms of leadership. While age does not necessarily determine the efficiency of an administration, it is quite laudable if we have more vibrant young men who may learn such processes and become better overtime instead of just have them slaving around until they grow old and desperate for power, thus mishandling it when they finally assume such positions.
As much as we must realize that Nigeria cannot reach its utopia within 4 years of a person’s administration, concerted efforts should be made to ensure the journey does not take eternity and people may come to finally believe the Nigeria can also compete well in the League of Nations.
