It is one of the pithy and eternal sayings of our elders. From age to age, it remains a gem: do not worry about the ringworm when you are infested with leprosy, the saying admonishes rather unremittingly.
In other words, we are being charged to focus on the most important things and desist from going after inconsequential matters. Or put differently, we are also reminded by our elders about the un-wisdom of going in pursuit of the rat when our abode is being licked by a conflagration.
Enough said. All we are saying here is that there is a rising hoopla recently about buying made-in-Nigeria products as the key to fighting the wretched exchange rate of Nigeria’s naira against its foreign counterparts. Today, all sorts of groups and bodies talk glibly and make shallow noises about buying Nigeria, dressing Nigeria and even eating Nigeria; as if it were some sumptuous chow.
The din of the so-called ‘campaign’ is often raised to a ridiculously irritating decibel by people who either do not understand what they are talking about or are up to some mischief or both!
However, as we have seen in the past, the ‘campaigners’ soon exhaust themselves and slink back into their shells. Of course, they achieve little, because nobody listens to their oft meaningless shaman-like chants. They achieve nothing and they gain nothing (unless of course they deployed public funds in which case they would have wasted our resources).
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