Nigeria has all the human, natural and intellectual resources to create a viable economy. Then why is it not doing just that. The answer is that the government does not allow it.
Whow! You would say. How can the government that is running east and west to make the economy work; trying to borrow money to pay workers; trying to increase our megawatts; struggling to pay our footballers; doing its best to give us gasoline; spending sleepless nights trying to find jobs for our university graduates; etc. be accused of not allowing the creation of a viable economy?
It is for exactly the reasons above that the government is handcuffing us and not allowing us to do what we have to do to live in abundance.
Capitalism! Someone would shout. Common sense, I would reply. As long as we rely on government to provide electricity, water, housing, employment, etc. We will not enjoy these amenities which we ordinarily can provide for ourselves.
Where are we going to get the money to make these things possible? Another person would inquire. Really, it is not the availability of money that is depriving us from building a viable economy. It is the fact that we are already conditioned by government into believing that it is their job to provide the good life for us.
And what are we getting from government? We are getting an atrociously horrible life, a fantastic story of why things are not as good as we were told during electioneering, and a mind-blowing promise that things will be Utopean if we can just cast our next vote for the right party.
A secret, things will not improve more than they presently are until we stop relying on the government to provide them. As a corollary, things will not improve until the government looks us in the face and say it is not its job to provide employment for our university graduates; to pay someone to entertain us on the soccer field; to send us on a pilgrimage; to provide an airplane for us to go abroad, etc. It is our job, if we are so inclined. The government must not go borrowing to build car factories or any factory at all, to get us a job, or pay you salaries for showing up for a job, etc. The government must not go borrowing AT ALL.
It is when we are able to decipher exactly what the role of government is in our life that we will start to use our own resources to build the viable economy.
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