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WHO DO WE CALL NIGERIANS?

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Years ago I had a family friend who headed the National Orientation Agency in my State of origin in Nigeria. He carried out a study and concluded that what we refer to as Nigeria actually consists of about 10% of the population. These consisted of the educated, those abroad, the rich, etc. The research showed that when we refer to our experiences as Nigerians we are actually the 10% ELITE.

I could easily understand what he was saying because though I had a privileged upbringing, my father took us to the village weekly and so we had “elite” friends and “village friends.” Later on I went to a State school for Junior secondary. This was one of the State schools in my city (As contrasted to my brothers and sisters who went to federal schools).

I learned that there were two worlds. In my school we were only two people who were dropped off in a car. Only two people wore glasses, because the others with bad eyesight could not afford it; nobody had ever passed GCE with up to five credits in the school, 95% of the kids could not speak fluent English, many of my mates could not speak English at all etc. While there were two federal colleges in our State, there were hundreds of such state schools.

Today, those two worlds have gotten even wider apart. Someone calculated that the Nigerian wealth and economy over the last decade or so has virtually been controlled by 2,000 people. Hence these ones seem VERY rich and outstanding while Majority are poor.

177 own private jets, yet Nigeria recorded less than 2 million commercial airplane travelers in a year. (South Africa with a smaller population, recorded three to four times this number). This means though 177 people are so rich to fly private jets, millions cannot even get on board a local flight. The poor have been left very far behind by the 1% elite.

Today we track the performance of Nigerians globally. Some do well. However in reality, we match our elite (the best among us) with the average person in other nations who have rights, access to infrastructure etc. When we do this the result seems to show that we are excellent. However, we forget the fact that millions upon millions of our people do not share these experiences.
I pray a revolution happens quickly; the elite do not naturally hand over and develop the people. This never happened in history. They have thrived by a faulty system that elevates a few over majority.

In America there was class action- 1.2 million Americans vs Rockefeller who typified the power of the elite. In Europe it was the revolutions.

Something must catalyze a revolution, however we hope not to get the type of revolution in France and some parts of Europe where the people in reaction to oppressive kings and elite decided that; if God placed Kings and kings were so oppressive, then they did not want God and his Kings!
I hope we can get a kingdom revival.

Comment by A guest on Sundayadelajablog.com

 

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