SCARCITY IN ABUNDANCE
The scarcity we have right now in Nigeria is not something that should be a course for alarm because it is self inflicted. No matter how much the United Nations gives to us, after a while we will go back to poverty, because the very system we operate in Nigeria is designed to keep us very poor. I will authoritatively point out certain things that we have to consider very seriously.

OUTRAGEOUS COST OF GOVERNANCE: Nigeria has the second largest presidential fleet in the world, with 15 jets all imported and maintained abroad. The monthly upkeep is nothing less than 1 billion naira. This is an amount most of the states don't make as internally generated revenue. At the beginning of this year, the national assembly budgeted 4.7 billion on SUV's despite their car loans, pool buses and others. Hope you can see our definition of governance?

MONO ECONOMY: Since Nigeria discovered oil in the 70's, all our creative energies shut down. Very soon, oil prices will further crash like G.S.M lines and a barrel would not be worth more than 5 dollars. Nigeria suspended every other very viable part of our economy like human capital development, agriculture e.t,c, today there is hardship in the land.

CONSUMERISM: Most of our would be entrepreneurs who would have solved most of our unemployment problems all have their start up capital in their numerous brands of I phones and Brazilian hairs. Just give a Nigerian man a beautifully well garnished porridge, I guarantee you, he would kiss his future bye-bye.

DAMAGED MINDEDNESS: Have you thought about why there seem to be restiveness in the Niger Delta? We believe that the quickest way to get is to damage. But when there is too many damages, how do we achieve progress? We used to have a national carrier? What happened to our national telecom company? We do not believe in sustaining the life of anything by maintenance. Any nation that does not have the culture of maintaining it's assets will remain poor.

OUTRIGHT THEFT/ SYSTEMIC STEALING: According to Nuhu Ribadu " over 380 billion dollars has been lost to corruption in Nigeria since independence, which would have been enough to replicate Europe with it's development six times in Nigeria". We have about 170 million people in Nigeria. Nigerians living in poverty rose from 17 million in 1980- 112 million in 2010. I know you would not want to know what the figures have risen to in 2016? The largest part of the finances that would have been for making the lives of the people better are stolen by the 109 senators and 369 House of representatives members

The bigger responsibility is not with the government but with you and I. We must start with ourselves, so it becomes easier to do well when we get into government, for you can't give what you don't have