 The Nigerian concept of what is okay or what is not. The late professor Pius Adesamy once said, should we just let it be, even though it is wrong, saying that is what they are known for? Our two years ago, a new private year line had just commenced operations and was getting good review on convenience and prompt takeoff. I decided to try, but guess what? It was my first and last. I had booked online a month before my trip. I got to the airport 19 minutes before the schedule takeoff time, but I couldn't be checked in because my payment could not be confirmed. The whole manor attitude of the staff forced the unusual heart of me. I had to call their head office before the confirmation was done, just five minutes before the close-up check-in. The staff could only motor, the insensitive comment have ahead hold my life. You can only join the next flight. It's still the same. Really? Well, some routes do not become bad overnight. They start with small port holes, which is ignored because it is not that bad. Then it expands, becomes a crater impossible. What if there was a culture of not letting a port hole last 24 hours before fixing it? Would our road be this bad? It is why our artisans are the very last option for those who want serious work done. It only takes two weeks, or let me say, two work mechanics to turn you to someone with no car. We do not have the culture of excellence. Apprentices do not complete, rather, their tutelage, before opening their home businesses are wrecking havoc. Everyone, rather, is looking for corners to cut. We should start waging individual war against middle-crit. Insisting on the right team be done. It will be difficult. Let's stop managing it like that. The degree of bad is immaterial. We will call her, but the right team must be done. One little detail at a time. We will get this country right. Today I chose to disdain middle-crit. Pick what you choose to disdain. Speak up. You are not alone. Perhaps by a collective effort backed by action we will drive positive change. Three things I was going to say. Number one, a stitch in time save night. What you have to do it. You don't have to wait for things to get backed before you do the right thing. Unless we oriented our mindset. When something is wrong, it's wrong. We should correct ourselves. Don't be too reluctant because I have been in situations where let me give you an example. I remember some couple of months back. There is this particular bank. I am not going to mention the name of the bank. I go there for my transaction. I notice the management of that branch. I don't want to use the word. Let me just say it. Discipline, lack of justice. They don't care. Corruption. Somebody can come in anytime and jump the queue. Some people don't want to talk because they feel I might do this big man. Let's just keep quiet. But when I have to stand my foot down at some point I have to threaten them. This is how you guys do it. I am going to report it to your head office. They have to say that people have to call them to other. Maintain online. You see some people want to jump queue. Things are done only. When I challenge, I will leave them. So they do not fight them. You see that that reluctance in trying to correct things. If you want this country to work, we have to call each other. I will give you another example. I remember when I was doing my NYC. I think that was some couple of years back. I was coming back. I was travelling from the states. I was travelling to Benin. I was going to the University of Benin to do something. Now I saw there was this particular policeman that always likes to stand in front of the University of Benin at that time. Some policemen, I think they were coming from let me mention the name of the police station this time around. This will blow up police station at BDP on the other side of the road. So this set of policemen will cross over on the highway, the legal express. We stand to stop vehicles to collect money from them. And so this year I was inside the vehicle. And you see they all ran in front of the vehicle. They drive out to much brake emergency. And what do you know? I decided I was going to give you something. Because I used the privilege of a copper. I was with my NYC or my NYC because I had to question the policeman over. What are you doing? This is wrong. You don't have to do this. I had to question him. And he resorted, we had an altercation. At that time he was not armed. Maybe I don't know what would have happened. But he obviously denied. And he used some abusive words. I had to correct him. Look, you are doing something wrong. You can't keep doing this thing. It's a disgrace to the police force. After I finished talking to him, I went further down to the gate and I met the superior police officer. I reported them to the police officer. You know what the man said? The man said, copper, just leave those policemen. We say we are tired of them. That's not the behave. Is that the right response? So that's what we are talking about. Should do the right thing or the time. And what do you have to say? Before what I have to say is first of all, I sympathize with your experience. But I'm sure you will not be surprised if I say that it's not peculiar to you. You all had some kind of experience. I've been in a situation whereby I had to miss my flight due to issues of this kind. So it's just on a general note the declining state of ethics in the professions across board. Poor investment in customer service. And then people just do things just for a mindset of expediency. People take advantage of people. Nobody cares to do certain things the way that they should be done. So in a way, just some of the general sense of desperation and poor regard for poor respect for people's time and also people's sense of dignity that have become the norm in this part of the world. So and I agree with you that if we have to begin to get certain things right, we have to start from there because most of the time when we put the fault on the leaders, I always tell people that no, the fault is not from the leaders. I actually know a lot of the view that any country gets the leadership it deserves. So if we're not getting a right leadership, then I think we should also put ourselves in the middle and see if ourselves have actually conducted ourselves in a manner that if we are being leaders, we would have performed differently. I can tell you now that I cannot even vouch for I don't want to say myself that when I attend to, when I attend to a position, I can actually be a good exemplar. So that is just, it's a cultural issue and I agree with you that we have to do a lot of reorientating the minds of the Nigerian people. Exactly. A couple of days ago, there was this Jane Gould by the National Audition Agency that was designed by the correctness of information that changed begins with me. So as I determined, people were to criticize that statement on political grounds. But when we look at it philosophically, within that statement lies the standpoint that we can begin to enlist on the cost correction because change actually should begin with each individual in the state. If each of us get a act right, then together we cannot get it right. My people have been saying that when group of persons P in the same spot, it's now formed a ladder. So group action, individual action would amount to group success. Exactly. Thank you so much, you guys. So just like to how to what you guys have said, right? I could remember different experiences. I don't like, I travel on roads a lot going across the country. I don't like giving police money. I don't know for what's ever reason. And you know, there are certain things at the checkpoint. You've seen checkpoint, you slow down. The next thing you see, they are bringing gone like you. You're a thief, you know. Once you do that to me, I found my face. Immediately, immediately I found my face, guy. And you know I have a small stature. When they know that we stand in the honor of these cars. So what are you doing just like this one? You know, they check your papers and stuff like that. I could recall an experience like that beneath bypass. I was going towards, you know, data and stuff like that. And I could tell you, the guy checked the paper, everything was fine. You know what I say? I know my job. You have to find something. You see, okay. Do you understand? I had to, because the guy was actually delaying me. I had to break my principle and say, take these two and say, hey, now you are talking. You know, it's silly. So I want to cap it up by saying, the common ones that we know, transporters is crazy, madness. You see a tricycle moving, beating traffic lights. And it's okay because they feel, they feel they can move anytime. You know, they scratch your, when you are driving, they scratch your car because they are both side, you see tricycle, both side. And you that you are entering, there was an argument, I was in one, one day the guy and I said, can this person, I said, no, you are doing the wrong thing. Because they don't tell me that. You disobey traffic lights. One, secondly, you are, you are overtaking the wrong side. And you are still telling someone, now it's telling you that you should do the right thing. You are telling the person that you should go. Inserting the person, it doesn't really make sense. So people will be in such tricycle and feel like it's okay, that's their way. Let us just leave them. It causes a lot of accidents. It causes a lot of bad things. And the same thing goes to dispatch riders. You know, they are crazy. I don't want to use some, no bad word, but one has to be extra careful when you are seeing these kind of people. So they are thinking about money. I want to do this and stuff like that, but you are doing the wrong thing. Is it okay? She will allow you to fly like that. She will say, because they have to meet up with certain amount of money they want to do and stuff like that. Should we just let it go? Let me add one, open defecation. If you are going along my two express, this is the road's under construction. Some people will stand in the middle of the road and be defecated. Destroying the environment. If you challenge them, it will be as if even the police, everybody sees them, but nobody is talking. That's the way it is to do. Let's leave them alone. So, that's it. The end always seems to come too soon on the advocate. 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