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By Ngozi Nwoke
The founder of the One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj ji, has charged the Federal Government to be empathetic towards Nigerians and acknowledge that it has failed to fulfil its obligations. He added that Nigeria’s situation was redeemable and citizens should not feel hopeless.
He made this statement recently while highlighting the challenges Nigerians were facing due to bad governance. He stressed that corruption, hardship and insecurity have thrived more than when this government came in with the ‘Change’ and ‘Next Level’ mantra, which everyone thought would be a positive one.
He said: “The citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should not feel hopeless and despair, because our situation is redeemable. But we have a cause to worry, especially with the incessant crimes, tense calmness, fragile unity, suspicion, political imbalances and dire want. There is every reason to feel concerned. We are also bothered about the magnitude of inconsistencies, inabilities, and glaring falsehoods and deception of our national life. Can we continue like this to our destination of unity and faith, peace and progress? Never.
“One will wonder what we have achieved since we gained independence for over six decades. Regrettably, we have had more stop-overs and setbacks than actual development. We had a preliminary democracy in the beginning before the military dictatorship took over via coups and counter coups.
“Definitely, something is fundamentally wrong with Nigeria. We have all it takes to make a great, prosperous, technically advanced nation, still we are reputed for backwardness. We are endowed with precious human resources, yet we are short of adequate personnel, because many eggheads have been forced to migrate due to socio-economic and sociopolitical situations.
“Instead of tapping the services and expertise of those specialists, the government and society frustrates them, and they thereby become a blessing and asset to foreign lands. Not that alone, our country is endowed with inestimable natural resources, yet about 95 per cent of the populace live far below poverty line. Hunger is written boldly on the faces of the people because there is no employment, while many employees are retrenched on a daily basis. Most of social amenities have been commercialised and privatised to the detriment and hardship of the commoners.
“There has been one identifiable great factor to our undoing, that is leadership. It is leadership that determines many things in society, and when leaders are bad, things must fall apart. It is not our economy, or civil society, or social service or police that is really defective but our leaders since the onset.
“I am calling Nigerians to eschew their differences and refrain from acts that will exacerbate acrimonious tendencies among the various constituents nationalities, rather our divisive fault lines should serve as a galvanising watershed in our resolute drive to build a strong virile, egalitarian role-model-nation.
“On the part of leaders across the social-political, economic, cultural and religious divide, it is time for them to shake off all forms of parochial proclivities that impede on the common good and well-being of the people to be able to move the nation forward and imprint on the sands of time.”
