Sir, I have elected to change the slant of this series from More Performance less Populism to the Musings from the Countryside for very obvious reasons.
Presently I'm writing from my home State of Delta where we just finished the funeral protocol of my younger sister who died in the hands of kidnappers on the 22nd of April, 2015. The schedule saw us traversing Asaba, Ibusa & Warri.
Sir, the pain of the period was unable to blind my heart to the enormous poverty & the grim pain the masses of our people face daily. From bad roads, poor infrastructure & unemployment to hopelessness & disease, the sad regimen continues ad nauseum ad infinitum.
I saw thatched mud homes the kind that shouldn't be a 21st Century spectacle & we yet wonder why crime & wickedness sustains.
I'm compelled to advice Sir, that in your soon to be constituted Cabinet the minimum benchmark must be minds who passionately seek the abolition of poverty as the logical path to peaceful co-existence & reduction of crime.
I gathered that like the villages of Igbodo, Umutu, Orerokpe et al so many villages across the Country wear grim spectacles of poverty & pain. Sir, you must truly entrench a new paradigm of service that must filter down to all tiers of governance else our wait for visible CHANGE will amount to the proverbial wait for Godot.
The NO LONGER BUSINESS AS USUAL disposition of your government must be total & deep enough to create a new margin in public & private trust.
May God Bless Nigeria.
TO BE CONTD.
Prof. Chris Nwaokobia Jnr
DG CHANGE AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA CAN
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