Lets hold ourselves together...
There has never been any doubt that Kano has
tremendous potential for development. Alongside resources and a strategic
location, we are endowed with a very capable, entrepreneurial and creative
workforce.
However, we have crawled for many years and walked in
some short spans. Time and again we have failed to live up to expectations
because rather than our people to realize their potential, we place unending
roadblocks on their paths. Rather than find lasting solutions when problems
arise or issues threaten to burst, we choose to play public relations and
engage in empty rhetorics.
Unfortunately, we keep losing many opportunities
appearing like an athlete who is destined to run but when he approaches the
track show signs of confusion and wants to do a walking or field event. We
cannot achieve real social, environment and economic transformation that way.
The time has come for us to run as we are destined
to. While it is true that as a community, we need many things, it is critical
for us to get our priorities right and to deal with them expeditiously. If
every year we focused our energies on three or four priorities, our community
and the entire Kano Plain would be completely transformed in less than 5 years
and well on the path to achieving prosperity.
It is evident from history that other communities
and regions that have prioritized reforms in their social, environment and
economic dispensation together have managed to solve their internal problems
and have taken off. Why can't we? Why not the people of Kano?
Our focus should now be on re-engineering ourselves
to enable us tap into our resources and opportunities so that our people can
finally live up to their full potential. We must not allow ourselves to be
confused nor to remain stagnant. We must instead rise up to the occasion, seize
the moment and propel our region to greater heights. The perennial problems
like floods should not be reason for our current economic status.
We must strive to run to bring comfort to the
community who have remained helpless and in dire poverty on many fronts.
This is the time,
the opportunity has come to be part of the initiative. Don't be left out...
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