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Knowledge is power. Everybody needs to pursue knowledge with energy. It liberates and tears throw the cloak of irrational and repressive “bigmanism”. Nigerians should know their rights and know how to engage the legal process. We need to take a second look at taxation. Those who have access to wealth must be made to contribute to collective growth through an effective and corrupt-free taxation system. Whilst people are free, for instance, to buy as many prestigious cars as they want, society needs to ensure that those who have the access to procure cars, that they and their generation do not need, should pay some form of tax, to be ploughed into the development efforts.
Finally, I think it is crucial we look at other countries, especially in the West, who are regarded as developed countries and understudy how they were able to conscript the gap between the rich and poor. Each time I travel to the Western world, I am stunned by the way government functions; the way people respect the law and the way human dignity is treasured. When I enter the train or walk in the streets, I always look out for the big man as we know him here in Nigeria, but I see none. Everybody is accorded due respects. The big man culture seems swallowed by the collective will to promote collective well-being. Everybody is a big man in his own house. Nobody cares to know or so it seems, who is big and who is not big. Once you do not run fowl of the law, you are a big man. Here the reverse is painfully the case. I think we should promote the western model of ‘bigmanism”. If you are a big man, let us know by your commitment; your sacrifices to the collective growth/vision; by your handiwork and work ethic; by your integrity; selflessness and demonstrated love for your country. In absence of these values, your ‘bigmanism” means nothing but folly.
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enlightening and thought-provoking Sahra Ahmed Koshin | Oct 29th, 2007
Thank you for this piece.
The same is true in many parts of africa such as Somalia, Kenya and Zambia where i have been. I will post this to many of my friends.
Indeed, a well-written and informative article.
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