Arise O'compatriots!

The elections have come and gone and have been lost and won. It's time to build the country via economic advancements not by political arguments (as to who is better or worse than the other).
Like it or not,we have made an outstanding achievement already under President Buhari. We are now living a peaceful life as against a distorted and disturbing lifestyle we were leading before the elections. Boko Haram no longer post videos of terror,rather,they are now releasing the Chibok girls in bits. Thank God and kudos to the Nigerian Military and of course,the Buhari regime.
Yes,Buhari have committed a lot of blunders too,most of which are economic in nature. Is that enough reason for us to keep our hands folded as we have always done and do NOTHING but argue and complain endlessly on social media???
My Clarion Call to the Youths
Unless we do something really positive about Nigeria, we would continue to rot away in poverty despite our immense store of wealth! We need to be proactive and make Nigeria work.
There's nothing we can do to improve the economy, this is why a good number of Nigerians fold their arms and watch the good things of life pass them by. I totally disagree. There's a whole lot we can do without the government. But,first things first!
Let Us Assume that there's No Government
Unless we do that,we would still be expecting them to do one MAJOR thing or the other for us. The BLUNT TRUTH is that we might wait till eternity!
In my immediate community the former senator, Senator Gbemisola Saraki sank a borehole water source in the area. It was meant to be a motorized borehole but we ended up with a manual one. We were grateful all the same. We enjoyed it for a year or two without a single problem. So,when it developed a fault,some of us opined we make contributions to get it fixed but some elders think we should call on the Senator to help us repair it. We got help after a long while but it didn't last long. It went faulty again,we had the impression that repairs were to be free but we started paying heavily for it.
To cut the long story short,the community finally agreed to convert the borehole to a motorized one since the manual type is no longer reliable. But how???
The elders asked us to wait on the local government but I and 2 other guys didn't think it was right. Elections were in the corner so the elders thought of seeking it as a reward for voting any aspiring candidate into power. It didn't work out as both APC & PDP made promises they didn't fulfil. It was through community efforts that the borehole is working today.
We need to do the same in Nigeria. Unless we forget them,we wouldn't realize how powerful and capable we are as a people. Today, in my community, the problem is no longer water but electric power and bad roads. Insha Allah,we shall be tackling the roads very soon.
Little Drops of Water makes a Mighty Ocean
Rome was not built in a day. It's going to be pretty slow but we shall get there. The community can be advanced without the help of the government PROVIDED the people of the community are ready to work hard on it.
It was estimated that we would need between N300 000 and N400 000 to convert the borehole to a motorized one,but,in the end,I doubt if we spent more that N250 000. This money was raised through the imposture of a levy. We simply broke down the cost and spread it over the whole community and voila! We discovered that should every member agrees to pay just N1000 to the course,we would get it done!
In Reality,it doesn't cost that much to get it Right.
It was during the course of the borehole project that I discovered that the contractors in collaboration with people in government release a very high estimation depending on the level of government that's involved and the quality of the project that's intended.
For instance,if the borehole were to be proposed to the government, our estimation has to be like N1.1 million whereas it actually costs less than N250 000.
So, please, don't be fooled by the prices that you hear on the news. It doesn't really cost that much.
Be a Responsible Resident of your Community
Unless you are socially responsible, all the stories I've been relating to you won't make sense to you. I'm appealing ONLY to the socially responsible. That's why I titled this right up 'Arise O'Comaptriots'. This is because it's only the patriots that can be inspired by this.
God Bless Nigeria,
God Bless the Patriots,
God Bless us all!!!