Nigeria Project

The greatest hinderance to Nigeria's development and progress is non other than the Nigeria's citizens' attitudes to the Nigerian project. If you ask an average citizen who he is,the probability he would say he is Nigerian is pretty low. Most would rather answer for their tribe and ethnical sect than answer for Nigeria. Most Nigerians donnot believe in Nigerian project. To add salt to sore,this ungodly attitude has been enshrined in our constitution backed up with law and a commission setup.
Literarily,this said commission,the federal character commission,is empowered by the constitution to enforce the sharing formula as agreed by the commission and the national assembly. For instance, if an hausa man is the Inspector General,the Director General of the State Security Service must be a yoruba
man even if there is a more qualified Ibo man while the Chief of defence staff would be an Ibo!
This highly sectarian way of appointment has the GREATEST damage to our co-existence and poses the greatest treat to the spirit competition and high quality productivity. And one more thing...it doesn't adequately provide for certain ethnic groups in the country!
People in the middle belt region,for instance,are often marginalized. By middlebelt,I am referring to the peoples of Benue,Kogi,Kwara and Niger states. We do have other minority ethnic groups that are not properly covered due to their small population and the discrimination of the larger ethnic groups in the same region.
The Okun,Tiv and Ebira people of the middle belt are few examples of such minority groups.
These minority groups of people seldomly get a fair share of the federal appointments allocated to their region. The Hausa/Fulani ethnic groups of their region dominate and take the largest chunk of the federal government appointments and benefit that are allocated to the North-Central region where they belong.
This has been the basis of most of the crisis and conflicts in the region. The Jos-plateau inscessant crisis,for instance, where the crisis,over the years have developed a religious undertone is a typical example of the adverse effects of encouraging tribalism in form of federal character!
Had it been that the federal character abuna no dey and every position in the country are competed for and ONLY the best is picked IRRESPECTIVE OF HIS RELIGION AND TRIBE,Nigeria would be better for it.
This federal character thing is killing us,in fact,it should be removed so that all governmental appointments are thrown in as opportunities to be competed for by EVERY AND ANY INTERESTED NIGERIAN. This would not only rejuvinate the spirit of competion and enhance productivity,it would also give a sense of belonging to a whole lot of marginalized sects and tribesmen of this country which in turn strenghten our unifying factor - the project Nigeria.
I therefore implore all Nigerians,home and away to call for the scrap of this evil sectarian policy and law and EVERYTHING associated with it. We are all Nigerians same and equal before the law,if we all contribute to the progress of the country,then,why should we have to share the benefits and rewards of everyone's hardwork by some formula that doesn't properly cover ALL those that laboured for it???
SAY NO TO INJUSTICE,SAY NO TO PARTIALITY, SAY NO TO SECTARIAN GOVERNMENT AND TRIBALISM,SAY NO TO THE FEDERAL CHARACTER PALAVA!
God Bless Nigeria!!!
Regards,
Abdurrahman.