Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Tunde Bakare's speech

The Nigeria project requires a new mindset that is driven by morally and uprightly minded leadership.
The institutions as they are presently are extremely weak to make any significant change.
Corruption as we know it today consumes every sector of the economy and its spiral effects are found in family, religious, social and ethnic circles. From the grassroots to the height of political spectrum the ugly head of corruption is dominant.
The citizens of this country need a mindset of social and material values that are rooted in the spirit of excellence and perfection for social cohesion and unity of purpose. It is akin to the Highest Good of Plato that is capable of healing the most corrupt society anyone can imagine if the leaders at every level of society follow it as a compass. It requires education for constructive criticism, freedom of expression and association, understanding, commitment to peaceful co-existence, dedication to service delivery, sacrifice without bitterness etc on the part of members of the society.
If these ingredients of purposeful existence permeate every segment of the new Nigeria, the country will be heading towards greatness and I believe it is achievable.

Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D
Professor of Philosophy
Adekunle Ajasin University
Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State
Nigeria
Cellphone: 08033041371
08024670952

> On Jan 12, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Nigeria project requires a new mindset that is driven by morally and uprightly minded leadership.
> The institutions as they are presently are extremely weak to make any significant change.
> Corruption as we know it today consumes every sector of the economy and its spiral effects are found in family, religious, social and ethnic circles. From the grassroots to the height of political spectrum the ugly head of corruption is dominant.
> The mindset of social and material values that are rooted in the spirit of excellence and perfection for social cohesion and unity of purpose. It is akin to the Highest Good of Plato that is capable of healing the most corrupt society anyone can imagine if the leaders at every level of society follow it as a compass. It requires education for constructive criticism, freedom of expression and association, understanding, commitment to peaceful co-existence, dedication to service delivery, sacrifice without bitterness etc on the part of members of the society.
> If these ingredients of purposeful existence permeate every segment of the new Nigeria, the country will be heading towards greatness and I believe it is achievable.

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