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Our elite know the ideas other countries implemented for development, but they prefer to perpetuate poverty and disunity because that is how they can remain in power.
We must agitate for root-level reforms rather than suggesting more symptom-level ideas for the elite to ignore. https://twitter.com/DrJoeAbah/status/1252532175297273856
We must agitate for root-level reforms rather than suggesting more symptom-level ideas for the elite to ignore. https://twitter.com/DrJoeAbah/status/1252532175297273856
Root level reforms mean we must understand that everything is connected and everything is problematic. The executive has problems; the legislature has problems, the judiciary has problems; the civil service has problems.
And so, to fix one thing, we must fix everything.
And so, to fix one thing, we must fix everything.
All of these problems are here because we insist on continuing with a model of public administration designed by Lord Lugard and perfected by the military: a command, resource gathering, revenue sharing system that is not designed for governance in the modern world.
At this level of understanding, you will realise that electricity is not the problem, transportation is not the problem, even corruption is not the problem - those are all merely symptoms of the problem: the political system.
A political system based on power, not on service.
A political system based on power, not on service.
The trouble with Nigeria is not just a failure of leadership, it is also an insistence on continuing with a political system that fails us. https://twitter.com/ayosogunro/status/915479135341834241?s=20
We need to re-examine our political system and its accountability structures. This means a renewed constitutional framework that transforms the structure of existing society and a new legal system that prioritises the civil, political, social, and economic rights of citizens.
But, with the current state of the national assembly, the presidency, the judiciary, and the political party system, how are we going to achieve this?
Through a SUSTAINED and organised mass agitation that demands for political changes until the existing systems give in.
Through a SUSTAINED and organised mass agitation that demands for political changes until the existing systems give in.
Is a mass agitation a 'revolution'?
In the way most people used the word 'revolution', no. A revolution as typically used is just about changing the people in power unconstitutionally. A mass agitation is a mass movement to make legal changes to the existing political system.
In the way most people used the word 'revolution', no. A revolution as typically used is just about changing the people in power unconstitutionally. A mass agitation is a mass movement to make legal changes to the existing political system.
How will this movement arise?
Movements arise through organised actions.
Organised actions result from social consciousness.
Social consciousness develops from increased awareness of a systemic issue.
Awareness increases with education.
This thread is part of education.
Movements arise through organised actions.
Organised actions result from social consciousness.
Social consciousness develops from increased awareness of a systemic issue.
Awareness increases with education.
This thread is part of education.
