Mal-Assumptions

?? Things Often Said Or Assumed That Are Not Factual The Core


1. That Nigeria is abounding in human resources:

*Not true.
There are lots of humanbeings. But they are not assets; they are mostly liabilities, human liabilities, ethically void folks. Yet they are redeemable... While there are human assets, human liabilities outnumber and outweigh them massively.
Nigerian youths are a huge army of exuberant people, battalions of which are woefully mis-orientated by generations of unconscionable mis-leaders, which include teachers and parents.

Nigeria is fraught with opportunity-monger(ing)s, "lazy activeness". 100 of 101 Nigerians "often look for opportunity". They work hard, very hard, at taking "the opportunity" from one another, and from others they could gain access to, by force of violence or of tricks.
This may be a fact everywhere. But why are some socio-political groupings far more welcoming; and others almost intolerably repulsive to civilized minds?
Rats never concern themselves with producing cereal grains, yet they are very hard workers...in unsealed grain-stores.

Genuine workers in Nigeria often have to do more than their work: they often have to ward off murderers, robbers, blackmailers, incriminators, assailants, extremely corrupt bureaucrats... They often have "lots of responsibilities" and "very little rights". Of course, when a people work very hard and achieve very little positively for long periods, save a scattered, far-fetched, aggrandized individuals, their hard work becomes or constructs a set of questions: on what, for what, by what, in what: do they work hard?
Nigeria is abounding more in 'Metamorphic Predators' than in human resources!

Lagos, a cosmopolis, typifies Nigeria. And it is a dense human laboratory.The vast majority of the denizens consists of Nigerians. Situations that an expert observer would need several months in some places to get a repeat (to study actions and reactions) present themselves several times a week in Lagos. So in 12 months, a recording observer can make fairly accurate or conclusive statements on the deep-rooted mental culture (psycho-emotional, behavioral...) and customs or orientations of Nigerians.
Most schools (so-called educational institutions) have practically become systems of marrying (certifying) individualistic greed and laziness into the minds, especially of the youth. Here, one can get excellently qualified engineers who can't, or better, won't fix a nurt. Because that involves doing something rather than making impressions of (fake) grandness. People hone their talents for maximum use in deceit.*

I have seen mechanics "spike" the road, several times...They dressed like workers laying optic fibre cables underground. That's their kind of hard work: giving other people flat tyres...
In ethical integrity, most Nigerians are a mass of dross.


2.That America (USA) is promoting democracy in the world.

*Non!
USA is internally democratic to a considerable extent. Externally, USA is far more interested in maintaining her hyperpowerhood than in any 'Cracy that is 'demo-genic', 'demo-oriented' and 'demo-destined'...America's sense of democracy in regard to other peoples is stoogehood: they should be subservient to her whims. However democratic any people are, if they become a threat to America's sense of superiority and firstness in the world, USA would ill-brand them undemocratic. StateDepartment would seek a "regime change". The intel' agency (ACIA=CIA) would want to render them helpless by all means.
But if you're "co-operative" while operating a tyranny or a "killer-cracy", why, the StateDepartment will work with you. Within the past half century, USA (has) ruined the democracies of several peoples, even to the point of large-scale civil wars...
We respect Americans ( and the British) for vocally defining for us the concept of human rights. Good. But America is not practicing her words. At most, not outside America and her interests.

3. That Mo' Ibrahim Foundation is promoting good governance in Africa.

*That's not yet; probably never shall be.
Mo Ibrahim Foundation is regaling some "fortunate" out-of-office leaders, not promoting good leadership among in-office leaders. Such a Foundation is good. But...
Indeed, the last two, which were also the first two, awardees of the foundation's prizes: Chissano and Mogae, were meritorious. But the machinations of selection depict that in the very proximal future, the Foundation may become a laundry system for very dirty African (mis)leaders and prodigal governments. Villains and traitors would be laundered into the images of heroes.

Besides, intransitive sanctions (denial of prizes), absence of intimate punitive engagements are pointless against determined rogues and public cankers. "I'll not give you the prize because you're, or have been, a bad leader" will not instil a good change, not even a fear in other bad leaders. Essentially they do not need the prize. Until a real threat or threats to their esential needs {personal freedom, utter lack of recognition (not by US or Britain or Russia...)} is instituted, determined mis-leaders may not be discouraged.
And how many of the hungry souls of Africa does the Foundation prepare to be good leaders?

Recent significant political events, apart from Messrs Mbeki and Kufuor who obeyed the law they vowed to defend and enforce, show that the sense of decency among the generality of African leaders is too subjective. Nigeria and Kenya. The geatest neglecters of socio-political morality, the greatest abusers of constitutional legality, were also the loudest preachers of rule of law. Kibaki and Obasanjo restlessly but heartlessly urged their surviving co-contestants to go to the courts, to follow the rule of law; playing murderer and deliverer at once.

4. That Africans are more communal spirited than other peoples of the world.

*That's become a bull-shitted concept.
Little exceptions are there. But the practical facts nowadays are that native Africans are extremely individualistic, materialistic... only that, unlike other (types of) peoples, they lack the will for positive material, technological and political creativeness that satisfy at least some basic yearnings natively. This makes the materialisms of Africa's materialists (Africa's powerful possessionists, material acquisitionists) take much more nagative toll on them than those of other peoples do on themselves. People hardly ever invent or improve (on) anything here. But they want to personally, privately, possesse every possesse-able, even the impossesse-able, needed or not.

5. That state bail-outs (example: America's hundreds of billions of dollars...) will save the economy, the world economy, and even the world environment.

*Not likely. May be very temporarily.
If you want to save a Greed-battered world, deal with the greed. Govern the people with unfailing governance so that their greed (the greed of the greediest) will stop destroying the wellness of the world.
While greed causes people to want to get or produce more, it also causes them to destroy more, to waste more. Capitalist greed goads people to work against their neighbours, including the physical environment, for maximum private profit.
You cannot calculate the wellness of the world and its human creatures in billions of dollars. You will unfailingly fail to be correct.

Capitalism or non-capitalism, if the controls are absent or too weak to minimize or prevent wasteful greed, the system will always be prone to woeful failure. (What did the sub-prime mortgagees do with what they obtained? And what did the hope-based superprime leasers intend?)

Good economy depends largely on good hearts, good people; not on the names of the system.
Good executives who love the goods and service of life and also allow others the chance to love same too; economics that neither trades in gods nor in humanbeings. Profits should be made for (the) people; not people for the profits.

Obscene it is to benefit from the calamity of others; worse even, to create the calamities. Unconscionable it is that a world full of wealth and improved ways of living is much fuller of privation and ill-health.

I wish there is only one, universal, trustworthy, government.

6. That the removal of Mr. Mugabe would be the ultimate solution to the problemms of Zimbabwe

*Not true
The old man is not even as much the problem as those calumniating him. He was attempting to solve some of the problems... under heavy fire from the problem-makers.