IT'S A MATTER OF TRUST

Good day everyone, it's been a while I last wrote. Been quite preoccupied.

So this morning I was thinking about our dear nation Nigeria, and some thoughts struck me as to why we still don't speak with one voice as a nation.

I observed that there is a serious dearth of trust in our nation, 

The People do not trust The Government,

The Government doesn't trust the People,

The people do not trust The People and even The Government doesn't trust The Government.

So then begs the question of "How do we move when we cannot trust the direction we are headed?", Can such a movement even be possible?

Any policy is immediately deemed suspicious and shut down or frustrated, and even when the steps have been taken; immediately there is a change we are driven back to the start line to begin our journey afresh. Thus we have been going back and forth, back and forth, plenty motion no movement.

  

I believe that as a matter of urgency, we all need to rediscover the much needed trust that is a prerequisite to growth, and one of the most effective ways of building that trust is via communication. As in the case of courtship, a man and woman build trust towards their lasting relationships via communication. In this same vein the Government needs to urgently begin to intensify its communication with the people. Look at it this way, in this relationship, the Government is the man, and the people the woman. It is the duty of the man (Government) to convince the woman (The people) to follow his path for life. If he fails he loses the woman. So also if the Government fails to convince the People, it would lose out. The woman also in most cases helps the man by guiding his communication process, which means even the People can guide the Government's actions.

(Note that this same principles apply to every thing you do in life be it business or private life).

Communication is mutual, if you are speaking French and I am speaking English we aren't communicating yet, we need to devise a mutual and common means to enable the other party understand for communication to occur, communication is complete when the other party issues a feedback.

My direct message to all, let us all put heads together to develop a means of proper and effective communication between the people and the government such that we can understand clearly what direction we are headed as a nation and we can rebuild the much needed trust lacking in our quest for a united Nigerian nation.