Nigerians today live under more dire strait and the pillars of a modern state are collapsing in Nigeria, according to pro-democracy organization – the Movement for National Reformation (MNR).
The grim picture of a country, once known and reputed as the giant of Africa, was painted by the organization, while examining the state of the nation, in a statement recently released by its General Secretary, Dr. Philip Idaewor.
The MNR observed that Nigeria, a developing, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural country is faced with many developmental challenges.
Such challenges, it listed as poor infrastructure, lack of adequate manpower, ethnic balance of power struggles for power and influence, poorly educated citizens, lack of financial facilities, etc.
It noted however, that 60 years after obtaining independence from Britain, Nigeria has somewhat comparatively underperformed below its potential and similar under developed countries, overwhelmingly because of poor management of its ethnic diversity challenges.
“These challenges were already emerging over 30 years ago which compelled the founding leaders of the MNR to call for urgent reformation of the Nigerian superstructure to hasten national maturation towards a more balanced and equitable country.
“Clearly, Nigeria with over three hundred composite ethic nationalities remains a subject in existential threat of failure:
- incapable of delivering to its population a stable and consistent improvement to the quality of life
- perfecting an image of political immaturity and moral fragility, and
- most tragically Nigerians today live under more dire strait and the pillars of a modern state are collapsing in Nigeria .
“Our movement considers This situation an aberration. The revived MNR aims to work with all patriots and nationalists in a non-partisan framework or context to provide the moral and political guidance and drive to ensure that the Nigerian experiment becomes a federative socio economic success in post colonial Africa south of the Sahara.”
