 세� Heat Gen 세� E 等等 تfferICES  foot 來 Ther shies  sonra the provinces. Yes, they are still celebrated as if they have achieved something great. We may see Governor being praised for simply fixing a road that has been disrepair for years instead of holding them accountable for the poor state of infrastructure in the first place. Furthermore, in Nigeria, we tend to have a culture of celebrating mediocrity, especially when it comes to entertainment. You may see an artist with poor vocals or super lyrics being praised as a superstar simply because they are famous. It is important for Nigerians to recognize that we deserve better than this. We should demand excellence from our leaders and service providers and not settle for less. By holding them accountable, we can create a brighter future for ourselves and for our country. Let us reject the normalization of mediocrity and strive for greatness in all aspects of our lives as Nigerians, we should always aim for the best and not settle for anything less. When I was coming up with this, I looked around and I felt like since we have been taking for granted for long, we tend to see some of this misnomer has been normal. After a week, power supplies restored to your area and maybe after six hours they interrupted it again. You were like, what a trial. Man, you were supposed to interrupt it for six hours because you got into this power supply. You felt like, wow, you were in Nederado. Then you not come to the normal. And again, you see, governments celebrating have been paying the salaries of our civil servants since the last three years without, is that supposed to be an achievement? Are we supposed to be celebrating you for paying the workers' salary? So I see it as we are celebrating mediocrity and that's why we have not moved beyond this state that we have as a country. When a service provider ditches us or don't give us the commensurate service for what we have paid for, we don't hold them accountable. We tend to, I've heard people who tell you when I use a card at the ATM and I was there with the $20,000, $20,000 is the last one yet because I don't even know, I don't want their problem. And you see the same person banking with such financial institution which means we don't know what we want. And that's why the government or the leaders are able to see through this and so they give us peanuts instead of what we deserve as citizens of this country. I don't think that is... I mean, I understand what you're saying but I feel like it's just human nature when you beat someone all the way, you constantly beat someone, beat and beat and beat, you keep hitting the person. After a while, the person gets used to it and because the person gets used to it, the person doesn't even understand where to rise from to understand because it's not... Imagine every time... I want to climb this mountain for example and every time I try, I fall and then for every time I fall, maybe I was supposed to fall to 20, then I fall to 10, then I fall to... And then I keep falling and I keep falling. The spirit gets defeated and there's no motivation. When you look around, everyone is hustling, everyone is bustling. There's a double taxation here and there. Everything is just so hard that when you then get just a little light, you can't read like is everything else because you've been met with so much negativity here and there that you've even given up basically and so the small positivity you get, you celebrate it. So I'm not defending people that... I mean, yes, you should ask for more, you should strive for more but when the society keeps beating you down, you try to fight for your rights, you put some... I mean, I've had people that, they got robbed and then they clawed out their account. They go to the bank to say, oh, it was one chance, they clawed out my account and then immediately they say, sorry, you can't help you because it showed that we draw this money go and get police reports. You can't file on that here because your money is maybe 200,000. That's not where you file it on that you file. So by the time they go round and round, they say to you, I leave you with God, God will judge you because number one, that is the person's entire savings that the person has worked, made sure she left the house at 4 a.m. in the morning and come back home at 10 p.m. in the night, worked nonstop and then entered one chance. Go robbed, go to the bank and say, hey, they clawed my account, bank says I can't help you. It shows that it was you that we drew it to do this. You need police reports. Go to police, police says, oh, it's below the amount. Go and file it here. You go to this one, they say pay this. I said, you know what? I start from the beginning again. Are you going to say that person is being medicated? No, the person has been beat up and beat up time without number, society has pushed the person down. I think I want to digress a little bit and look at it from a different and a different angle. You see, yes, mediocrity, reality is what you have actually explained and mediocrity is what we should not entertain. But we should quickly run it back to our self-awareness. Because today, the same police, the same banker that are doing the job, they are not doing the job because they are happy doing the job. They are doing the job because there are certain instructions, they have to follow and they have to put food on their own table. They are not doing the job and following into the letter to the way it expected to be done. I give an example. You go to an ATM machine or a POS agent. We draw, you have a declined debit meaning that the transaction fee you are debited. On a D situation, you are not to fight where you got debited. The standard says go to your bank, fill a dispense error form. The dispense error form says go and log it on a system, then they track it and it is bank to bank to reverse your money. But what we have is different. You see somebody with a staff, a bank staff, number one, they don't even know their job. They will tell you, yes you have been debited, see the money is debited, go back to where you have been debited, that's where the money is. You see transaction of transfers. This is a session idea that you have to log and track the transaction. They lazy to do it. They will tell you know we don't have this money. You see a system where I have seen a non-fintech, I don't want to mention it. You see a money, you send the money from a thought party to that non-fintech. You see the money. So you saw a amount of money received, status, fill. Go back to where you get the money from. You know, it is safe awareness I think and the will power. I also go back to about horse. If you look at before 1966 school, so you have to digress a little bit. Before 1966 school, Nigerian was running a regional system. Everybody were trying to see how their community or their region can strive. You know it's a way thing. Everybody they don't celebrate you because you are doing a road. Because they know it is necessary for their next phase of development. And you can see that those are the best road we still have to date. Right. Now, you now see a military system where there is fear. You know, since 1966 school and counter coup and stuff like that, we have been living in fear. And everybody just trying to see how do I survive. If I do this, there are powers of let's say a government that is powerful more than me. Or I have somebody I don't have money. They will win the case in court. You know, I don't see justice. And it is that fear that actually promotes the medro kitty that we are seeing in Nigeria. You see the fear that somebody will tell you I will kill you. A police you are rushing on the road. They will tell you I will kill you. And if they have good connection, they will kill you and nothing will happen. You can see the case of the lawyer that was killed, pregnant lawyer. Now police is discarding it as the case is going elsewhere like they want to pardon they are still on the case. But it doesn't look like they are accusing the police. Usually before now what they do is they will just disengage the police. The action happened as a police officer. But when they say you have killed a citizen, the reason why that of the lawyer is because she is a lawyer and she is an intervener and say they will follow it to the letter. If you are an individual, they will disengage such police officer. The police officer will answer the crime as an individual. But when the crime happens, there is a medro kitty that doesn't really make sense. It happens when the person was a police officer. Why will you disengage that person? Because you don't want it to attach to the system. And it is all about self-awareness. When people are conscious and are aware of what penalty, what effects, what negative effects all these actions are going to be. I believe people will be conscious of their dealings. And just like you said why will you celebrate a governor for constructing a road? Why will you celebrate a governor for paying salary? Why will you work for their money and they are expected to be paid? It is just like saying you have father in the house and giving food to the children. Why will you celebrate a father for giving food to his own children? Doesn't make any sense. You are not having any additional value to say you know there is a society like this, my child go and learn this skill so that you can solve this problem in this society. Then you should celebrate such parents. You can see normal would, normal traffic but look at Lagos for example normal traffic whatever is there but they introduce the lives of last man as an additional supporting you can celebrate them for bringing something new. You look at BLT subsidize as a den you can celebrate yes this is beyond normal and these are things we should be looking at too because we are used to it our parents do not also help us should be told because our parents actually you know others glorify professional courses and the society acceptability of some things have made other people look less and you allow it like that then I think we should start thinking different and see self-awareness for my own advocates more like of self-awareness and taking necessary action that when do sorry I just want to really jump on that it's good to say self-awareness but I think also when we go with self-awareness we should also look at enforcement it's one thing for me to be aware of a situation of what is my do of what my worth is how do I enforce it I agree because I am aware I am aware that I have been dealt a bad hand I am aware that I know what my worth is and this is not my worth so how do I enforce it when the society that is supposed to based on the rules that govern a society a same society the rules cannot be enforced so I am only aware of my suffering I am aware of what is limiting me or I am aware of my situation I am aware of what I need to have and what I don't have I agree with you and that is why I said I chipped in a little bit but I don't want to expand shades on it when I went back to the government of military regional and stuff like that but when we are aware we don't even start we have a democratic system and it's not something that will just happen under a miracle it's a process are we electing from the world level the necessary people to nominate who represent us to do the right system because if there is no system it's difficult to enforce it's corrupt right so we need to start changing the mindsets from the grassroots from the interaction not the high type of living we live in an estate now I don't even know my neighbor you understand within your world you have to interact don't look like this person is less today we see artisans has been less artisans you can't do without them absolutely so this aspect I need to point on it I understand that our psyche has been really battered we went through a long period of military ideology we've been rude in fear so it has it has its own consequences but I think at some point we need to put a stop and say here just like you have said if somebody has beaten that person wants to go to onkona girls but at some point we cannot continue to celebrate this mediocrity there has to be consequences of actions that is what has really been aniju because anybody elected who has not performed knows that there is no consequences because he is surely going to still get re-elected the next time it comes out again so at some point we have to know we want to say no we cannot take it no more we cannot continue to celebrate these people we've seen situations in this country where politicians embezzled money and their own kids men who come out and say it's our own living at least is doing fine for us so when you are even talking about on that when you are talking about enforcement there is also plead bagui are still under billion I'll give you 80 billion free me so that means if you want to still be big that's enforcement and they will enforce and they will pardon you so enforcement that's why I talk more of self-awareness doing the right thing even if you are in government and stuff like that everywhere you have to I'm not saying that self-awareness is not important but I'm just saying that they go and in and because even if I am aware even if I'm ready to even if the God is going to charge back he needs to have someone is going to charge and he needs to know that he needs to knock this person down so that is is now going to enforce his might and strength and boom for action so I'm aware that this guy if I continue like this there's nowhere else to go so let me not give you another example just to join what he said I was in a particular junction in Lagos here and this guy kick against in discipline or what have you what has occurred to chase them away but this lady maybe they saw them they were only a scatter you know you are still only after them this old woman fell he stood up, fell like 30 times and people were pleading please leave this woman she has at least feared you and the next thing the guy was not saying they were like gathering people did awareness they bombarded them and they ensured that they freed the lady even as much as the lady was doing something that is banned in those area but they were at least trying to say give this person a warning you know that's self-awareness of say if we say no and just talking about we coming together to change things even a considerate authority by the time we come to her and say no we are going against this bad act it is so it is just the readiness and awareness to say we are not just I recall when I was in school when I was in school I fought the management you know why because our deal that we pay so management staff are the one paying they are the one swallowing it and we begin to fought it and follow student are the one fighting us back but immediately they get to know so this is how was it is if they knew we would have come together and do the right thing so self-awareness is also very important when people are self aware they can come together in unity and say stop to something that is not right that's the advocate the end always seems to come to some on the advocate however the advocate continues on our social media platforms on facebook plus tv afrika hashtag the advocate ng on twitter and instagram at plus tv afrika hashtag the advocate ng to catch up with previous workers go to plus tv afrika dot com forward slash the advocate ng don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel plus tv afrika till next week same time on this station let's keep advocating for a better society bye