Mama,
The political terrain is not as enchanting and inviting as it all promised to be. Things are so hot and fragile, one must ask all ye in the heavens to join us in serious prayers for Nigeria. Serious and relentless prayers, Mama......PRAYERS!
You do know how stridently optimistic I am...and remain. No change. My small worry is about our women: Will they now be more worried than before, scared than before, to join the political fray? Is the gameplan a ploy to scare off superior new entrants? And the women? Why???
One more thing we all know is that GOD ALMIGHTY, in His infinite mercy, has always saved Nigeria. He did it several times before, He will do it again.....and again, and again. Especially now.
Amen.
Your Son
Dayo
Monday, August 28, 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006
Dear Daddy,
Our federal government says it is working on getting the country "uninterrupted power supply" in 50 YEARS' time! Then, as a mark of its seriousness about economic development, it will take them 25 YEARS to link the north and the south with just THREE rail lines! And this does not include an East-West line which common sense dictates, and all Nigerians have for long been loudly clamouring for!
If a country as large and populated as ours lacks electricity and railways, not to talk of inland waterways transportation, how can the economy grow? Yet, for several years now, they've been self-applauding their economic performance! We wonder. Real ponder.
I sympathize with the federal planners. They have run out of steam, and deserve our persistent prayers. Most of the road projects they've embarked on are still crawling to completion. Yet, they have just a few months (out of two 4-year terms) to leave office! Amazing.
Ditto our federal parliament. It has always waited on the executive branch for all things! And this imperial executive patently savoured its primacy, its prerogative.
After spending (is it squandering?) eight years on "macro-economic" reforms, they have finally made the earth-shattering discovery that no economy can successfully prosper without a very robust railway network - anchoring its inter-modal transportation system!!!
When the president was reading his speech on the subject, in a national broadcast, I was pretty convinced that he must be quite convinced - in his heart of hearts - that only his speechwriters and hangers-on will ever bother. Not many else, I don't think.
In the end, only one question lingered: Is this a joke, or what?
The campaigns will tell.
Take care
Dayo
Our federal government says it is working on getting the country "uninterrupted power supply" in 50 YEARS' time! Then, as a mark of its seriousness about economic development, it will take them 25 YEARS to link the north and the south with just THREE rail lines! And this does not include an East-West line which common sense dictates, and all Nigerians have for long been loudly clamouring for!
If a country as large and populated as ours lacks electricity and railways, not to talk of inland waterways transportation, how can the economy grow? Yet, for several years now, they've been self-applauding their economic performance! We wonder. Real ponder.
I sympathize with the federal planners. They have run out of steam, and deserve our persistent prayers. Most of the road projects they've embarked on are still crawling to completion. Yet, they have just a few months (out of two 4-year terms) to leave office! Amazing.
Ditto our federal parliament. It has always waited on the executive branch for all things! And this imperial executive patently savoured its primacy, its prerogative.
After spending (is it squandering?) eight years on "macro-economic" reforms, they have finally made the earth-shattering discovery that no economy can successfully prosper without a very robust railway network - anchoring its inter-modal transportation system!!!
When the president was reading his speech on the subject, in a national broadcast, I was pretty convinced that he must be quite convinced - in his heart of hearts - that only his speechwriters and hangers-on will ever bother. Not many else, I don't think.
In the end, only one question lingered: Is this a joke, or what?
The campaigns will tell.
Take care
Dayo
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