Fesowola O. V. Akintoye
Ignorance thrives in darkness, making fraudulent information thrive like wide fire, building shaky and weak foundations for tomorrow's solutions to natural problems because nature will surely take its natural course. Corruption thrives when a people are governed with wrong information and run their lives on cooked and baseless statistics. Government intentions and business ambitions are frustrated as a result. Corruption destroys the fabrics of our collective will to aspire to great heights, conquer the environment and ensure social stability and progress.
Many have argued, and rightly so, that corruption remains perhaps
Nigeria’s biggest problem. The hope, therefore, is that President
Buhari, “Mr. Anti-corruption”, can deal with corruption and get the
Nigerian state to function. So, why has the Nigerian state been unable
to tame corruption and why has the state itself defied many attempts to
make it functional? The answer is simple: We can’t have a functional
state without a functional nation. Clearly, we can’t witness the rebirth
of this nation, and by extension the Nigerian state, without unmaking
Nigeria. In unmaking Nigeria, we have to deal with the fundamental fault
lines that throw our nation into episodic convulsions and define our
attitude to our common patrimony.- May 29, 2015 : Chido Onumah
“We can’t continue to search the branches of a sick tree for the cause of its sickness” – African Proverb
Mapping Nigeria and its resources will provide knowledge and understanding of human, environmental and societal identities, their actions and resultant impacts as well as revelations of the underlining forces that shape our national life.
It is time to map Nigeria, to pull down the walls of ignorance, confront corruption and manage our nation effectively with facts. Those who refuse to map Nigeria give room to corruption and other fraudulent practices.
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