Anyone who has spent time on Nigerians in diaspora dominated social platform would be sick and tire of the their negativism, sanctimony and boasting about the system they currently live in and their constant whining and complaining about their God forsaken homeland.
They share videos of automated garri factory in Bolivia and elsewhere, berating Nigeria and Nigerians in the homeland for not doing the same thing.
Instead of coming together as a body, raise the fund, go to Bolivia which is not too far away from us, form a partnership with them and transfer the same technology to our country and make money in the process, they would rather list the reasons why it can’t be done in Nigeria. Rather they venerate other African countries like Zambia which are woefully behind us in development, forgetting that negativists and pessimists build nothing of value.
When we keep saying what’s wrong with Nigeria, ain’t we citizens or at least once citizens of that country? Some of us have no solution to Nigeria’s problem other than hauling insults at the president and anyone who expresses a contrary position. Was that how this “great” country which we now call home was built? If truth be told some of those “great” nations are not so great. They have their ugliness underbelly.
Some of them are just great packing and re-branding of themselves to the world, why we Nigerians specialize in degrading and denigrating our own homeland. Negative branding has real life consequences. Who would want to invest in a country whose citizens are constantly bringing it down by projecting negativity? No one.
Didn’t African-Americans march, fight, and paid with their lives to pass landmark legislations like the civil rights act, the voters right act and other such legislations that have brought the societal change which we African immigrants are now enjoying and have benefitted from. Yet, the struggle continues. Racial disparity and racism still exist. That is the nature of human systems. Changes are usually gradual and won not by whining but by fighting to being them about.
Every great nation we idolize today has gone through worse than what we are experiencing now. This is our make or break moment and we will not make it with our “bring him, mob at the cockpit door, negativism, constant whinning and complaining with no actionable solution proffered” attitude.
Great nations are built by the sweat, tears and blood of patriots not by lazy armchair critics, stone-throwers and whiners.
Let everyone do something to improve their local neighborhood and block by block, town by town and local government by local government, state by state, we will transform our nation.
If we think we can do better than those in power, let’s organize a coalition of concerned diasporans and get into the political arena to change the system. It’s a lot easier to be a lazy and sanctimonious armchair critic separated by thousands of miles of vast ocean. It changes nothing otherwise with the mountains of whining from Nigerians in diaspora, our country should be a great nation today.
We in the diaspora who have been exposed to systems that work have a special obligation to contribute our quota to transforming our motherland.
Sadly, many of the same leaders at the helms of affairs today including our President, were once diasporans like us making a lie of our holier than thou sanctimony. Many of us will do worse if given political appointments. We will steal and enrich ourselves like almost everyone else does. That has been the track record of the Nigerian diasporans. It is criticize from afar off and join them in looting given the opportunity.
