Friday, February 22, 2008

The Jeep Driving Nigeria who is poor

The month of August means a lot to me as an individual for several reasons. First of all that is my birth month and also the month the Dare 2 Dream Youth Initiative was launched as a platform for our project The New Nigeria Dream Project.

This august we had Gbenga sesan as a one of our faculty and also Dr Brown Ogeifun, on the summit day on our way to the house for lunch we were driving with Gbenga and my Dad who was one of the lecturers, right in front of us there was a classy jeep and it was the kind every one would want to ride in, you know what I mean.

A drama unfolded in front of us that made me have a second thought if I would actually ride on that car or with the occupants, obviously they have been eating inside the car, before we could say jack Robinson one of the occupants of the car threw the remains of what they have been eating outside on the dual carriage tarred road.

It is expected that we that level of wealth, the basic ethics of throwing things at the right place would have been imbibed, but that was not the case.

This Nigeria is internal poor, poor in terms of character, virtues and values that would build a GREAT nation

The wealth we would be celebrating in the next few years in Nigeria will be based on internal characteristics not what you are riding on or wearing or “spraying” at parties

Can I ask you a question? Are you a wealthy Nigerian? If you ride inside a worn out taxi cab but you put on the torn seat beat and dispose dirt properly then you are, but if you ride in a Lincoln Navigator and dispose things on the road with your seat belt of then you are a poor Nigerian.

This will turn and wealth will move into the hands of the right people. People with the right values. Do the right thing even when no one is watching.

God Bless Nigeria

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