 Do you know you have a right? Every day we complain about Nigeria, its challenges, unfairness, lack of opportunities, inequalities, and of course, non-representation by our representatives in governments. We have so complained that we've become accustomed to a particular lifestyle. For example, when someone comes conversing for votes, we say, when the cuckoo gets there into power, it will not perform jerry. When we hear of a second Niger bridge being constructed, we say, government is lying, which second Niger bridge they built? When we see pictures of this built, we again say, these people are lying, it is Photoshopped. When the journalists are taken to the grounds to visit the bridge, we say, bridge with them, no go completes. When we see that the work is progressing after many months and years, we again say, the materials with them, they use, no be good one. That bridge, no go lasts. I'm sure you get the picture, and I'm sure a lot of you, as you listen to me, will say, no mind, no APC, no dem dem. Well, you're wrong. And these baseless accusations are responsible for where we are today. Once a statement does not align with your thoughts, beliefs, or understanding, we attach religious tribal or political leanings to it. That is the safe rallying point. That way, we get other lopsided, sentimental thinkers to join you in opposing what the person is saying or doing. No matter how relevant it is, but the picture I'm painting here is that Nigerians have become a bunch of complainants who like to talk, lament, but never seize opportunities to better themselves, no matter how low-hanging these opportunities may be. We only exist, we stopped living. We move around like we do not have a right. Again, we are quick to say, you know, see waiting them you do, she will never be one claim right. I know that standing for your right with government is a tall, but achievable order. There's a way to go about this, but that's a story for another day. For now, let me point you in this scenario. I had gone to nearby Kiosk to buy an item. As I walked towards the Kiosk, I saw people standing idle. Getting to the Kiosk, I realized that vendors where the vendor rather was having a heated chat with someone. Other people who came there were definitely livid. Faces turned red and obviously agitated, but they looked on and complained, waiting for minutes. After 30 seconds of waiting, I left. You know why? Because there were other Kiosks in the corner who saw the same item. You see Nigerians patronize a food vendor, a mama put for example, they are unhappy with the service, complain of insufficient use of salt, yet they go back there every day and engage in the same round of complaints. I'm painting this scenario to emphasize our weakness as a people. We've become used to complaining while we continue to live an unhappy life. We offer advices which we need to other people and we never implement the same advices on our own. Lastly, before, okay, let's say this. Lastly, and believe me, this is truly a life story that happened to me last week. I had gone to a mobile network provider, I won't mention the name, to make an inquiry. When I got there, nobody was allowed into the compound. It was locked and we felt like we were at an embassy trying to get visa to travel out of Nigeria. And obviously, people were unhappy and obviously dissatisfied customer cried out. This government shot. So I turned, I looked at him and asked, now government get this institution? He said yes now, banks, mobile companies, all of them are government costum. If we all decide to leave our network providers due to poor service, they will sit up. But no, we won't. Knowing that we won't, the network providers keep rendering terrible service. Have you noticed that multinational companies offer better services in their countries of origin than they do in Nigeria? Have you noticed that beverage companies offer diluted quality of the quality drinks they sell in other countries? We have a broken spirit. No wonder politicians take us and never take us seriously. We are a back worse than a bite. All right, so like I was saying, that telecommunication theme I told you of India country, you will be shocked or you won't be surprised that they will allow youths, young persons on the graduates to come and participate in internship and then thereby transferring skills, international skills transfer. But in Nigeria, they come, they make a flimsy excuse that they have a high hybrid equipment and when it spoils, they need to get expatriate from outside to fix it. Therefore they don't want a Nigerian undergraduate to work there and the government will not say anything about it. The Nigerian government is supposed to tell them if you want to do a business here, please make sure you're not only making money from the citizens, you're also contributing many food, you're impacting the life in different areas, more simply through entertainment. Everybody has red, your right ends, we are another person's right stars. But you see, what I do, you judge the government's work, but you see, in other climes as well, the people are active. The people could just decide to blacklist that company and that's it. What we do as Nigerians, we don't take action, we complain and expect a government that is faceless to do the work. I say faceless because there are so many facets of the government. When you say government, it depends on the sector you are complaining about. It's complainable, yeah. And there's something that people say, oh, the fragile government, I don't want to call the name of the president, you know who. And we'll go, so I wanna ask people, okay, this issue is happening in your state. Yeah. Exactly. Your state is not in Hatana. Thank you. Your state's governor is not in Hatana. Your state's governor is from your states. It's from your states. Your local government chairman is from your local government. Even though they don't stay there all the time. But you got my point. The point is, that is the person who will go and hold. Exactly. Not the president. So I know the presidency can do more, but some of our problems can be solved at granular levels, even from our own end. So the problem with Nigerians is, we won't change, but we don't want to take action. That is it. In anything, we buy the wrong stuff from Conga Juma. Thank you. We don't call Conga customer service and say, this thing I ordered is not what was delivered. It's work. We'll just be complaining about it. We will not sit back and complain. That is it. I will call Conga. And they will come up. In the picking, it takes time. It takes effort. Yes. But that thing I have done will cost Conga to sit up and tomorrow they will be better. But when nobody complains, anything you don't complain about means it is all right. I know Anita wants to say something, but let me quickly explain this scenario. When, what's it called? National health insurance started in Ghana around 2003 or 2004. I'm not too sure, but around that time, I have a friend who went to the hospital, I mean pregnant, and was going through the process. And she was called to the counter and listened. If you won't burn your child, go pay, make you, leave national insurance. No bother yourself. Go and pay and do your antenatal. But today in Ghana, that same national insurance that my, this is not them. See, it's a friend I happen to. That same national health insurance scheme is one that when you go to the hospital and your card is expired, you just pay through mobile money and immediately it is activated. It's the same health insurance where when you use it, they send a text message to you immediately to ask if you're the one that used your card, if not to report. But it started the same way Nigeria's insurance is. But what are people doing? Nobody is using it. Nobody, we're just complaining in our homes. Not even complaining on TV. Any time, I'm sure, any time. How's it going? I think so. Any time comes, I just want to add something. You know, there was something that happened not too long ago while I was serving. I served in Onitsha, Anambarastit. I remember one day I was going to commute from Onitsha to Oka and then we had to board the willy-o-pianobos, then they called it opianobos. And then you see some people were jumping lines, I've read Nigeria, so many of them. They don't respect line. Me putting on my copper line, I came there, what is going on here? Or everybody maintained one line. And they came and said, who are you? I usually copper in Anambarastit. We are going to beat you up here. I told them, as far as I'm concerned, no body is going to move this line. They tried, tried, tried, tried. Imagine some co-member were telling me I was being foolish. Why didn't I just allow them? I said, no, we have to do the right thing. I fought and fought and fought on TV to some extent to my strength and carry. Take you, yeah. My strength carried me. And we were able to maintain line. And then when we got into the bus, some of the passengers were telling me I was to, they use a busy program. Why some silently told me, you did the right thing. I wish we had somebody. Anyway, I won't talk to him. I know anytime he says something, I don't want to hear any talk. I'm interested, I mean, all through what, where you were, when you were talking with the discussions, all that kept on resonating with him was, we have a broken spirit. Because we have trashed this issue in various platforms, in various places. We talk about it every day, social media, small gatherings, large gatherings, about the Nigerian people, about governance, about everything. And I kept on, the question was, what exactly is responsible? You know how you need to go to the root course of something? And I remember there was a documentary I said a few years ago about the Great Depression in Britain. And how at that point, the same Britain, UK that we know today, people would actually, to get a piece of bread, they would actually literally almost beat each other. And I realized that maybe there's some answer, some circle, in that broke, how do you heal the broken spirit of people? What about maybe one of the places that we need to start looking at is that we have a national psychiatric spirit too. And I don't mean that in a bad way, but I mean that the place of, you know how people pay lip service to mental health and healing, because some of the actions and the things that we do and the reactions and the behavior patterns that we're looking at now, are not just basic. I mean, on the face of it all. Because I was involved, recently while talking, I was being involved in a particular viral change campaign. And initially it was just a matter of advocacy on TV. But then even the funders realized that you need to look at paradigm shifts. These are not things that you just complain about or talk to pull out. You need to look at how do you actually systemically change everything. So maybe we're gonna have to take a good look at our mental health institutions, the national, and a bit across board. Really, really look at how, in governance, how do you go into your psychology, as a people, as solutions, policy changes, everything? Everything is a systemically change. You're right. You're right. I know. You would like to enter here too much in Nigeria and it's important. Those in the corridors of power are not exactly... We can trash this. It's, like you said, from mental health to, you know, even budgeting itself. You can take it to any angle. But the bottom line is that you ask the question about how do we regulate this? And I think it starts with this kind of program. If you look at every country that's falling into depression of going off the radar, one thing they do is that they just end up having a group of people that decide there must be a change. And I think that's what we're saying today, that as Nigerians, we must change. Now, there is certainly never enough time to discuss issues on this platform, but we make do with what we have. Please don't just listen. Remember what they say. Rome was not built in a day. Clear your parts, even if it's just to share their advocate with family and friends. 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