No recent public policy illustrates the contempt that Nigeria’s political elite have for fairness and equity, than the newly passed PIB.
Nigeria, especially her ruling elite, has a choice: It can make the country a land of hope, opportunity, inclusion, fairness and justice or elect to glide down the path of perpetual internal tensions — not exactly a good prescription for regional leadership.
Starting with the security context, kidnapping is rampant. Between January and July, over 1,000 students in eight secondary schools were abducted. Aanalysis on July 31 revealed that, from 2018 to July 2021, ransom estimated at N13 billion has been demanded by kidnappers, with a fraction of this paid. In the second quarter of this year alone, 3,133 civilians and 296 security personnel were killed in Nigeria, according to SB Morgen, a Lagos-based research and risk consultancy.
Meanwhile, the number of persons living in poverty in Nigeria, which overtook India as the poverty capital of the world in 2018, reaching an estimated 99 million persons living below the acute poverty line of $1.90 per day, is likely to have increased, as African Development Bank has estimated that the pandemic will push 43 million Africans into poverty.
Foreign policy begins at home, and is a time-honoured diplomatic aphorism. As Nigeria’s economic, political, social and security challenges mount, she risks losing her residual appeal as a well-run nation. Nigeria’s decline is not inevitable. Neither is her claim to regional leadership pre-ordained.
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