Good People, never doubt the capacity of Nigerians to fix the current paralysis in the nation. This nation used to work. Many things seem like fictions these days but just decades ago, we were on the path to the mountaintop. Remember, decades ago, Nigerian scientists were creating vaccines approved by WHO (check cholera) out of our universities. Today, we have to wait for Pfizer, Modena, etc to save us! We will fix that because we’re as smart as those guys.
As I welcome Prof Osinbajo (he declared for Presidency this morning) and other politicians into the arena for the next President of Nigeria, I make it clear that Nigeria can cut poverty by half, deepen industrial competitiveness, elevate rural Nigeria, etc within 4 years. I have no party affiliation but “running” for a federal ministerial position. In my 3T2030 Plan for Greater Nigeria, I posit that we can create millions of low middle class citizens in Nigeria within two years. How?
Go back to any plot of gross world product (aggregate of global GDPs) over the last 2,000 years. There is one thing that is consistent: property rights. No nation has developed without property rights and until nations have built that capacity, they cannot advance. The efficiency of the utilization of factors of production has always tracked strengthening of property rights.
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My plan is simple: expand the national balance sheet by unlocking dead assets in rural Nigeria. We will put property rights on all lands, farmlands and properties, enabling transferable velocity in them.
I will do that within the first few months, using startups to grow and map lands. Each local government area will use its young people to do this job, and we will provide a market-driven process that will not cost the government anything. The plan is to make it easier for people with land assets to have access to credits even as we improve the ease to buy and sell these assets.
The ministry of lands under the existing land use act will receive immense technology evolution by bringing innovators to drive property rights in Nigeria. I expect to unlock massive wealth and open new vistas for a dynamic rural economy in Nigeria. Yes, anyone with land or property will suddenly become rich! I want those properties to show in the national balance sheet; today, they are invisible!
If we do that, I expect at least 5 million families to move into the low middle income class. Imagine inheriting 100 hectares of land which will now show up in the national “balance sheet” of Nigeria giving you the opportunity to access credits in your local bank for your business, or even easily sell one hectare to educate your children.
More so, with stronger property rights, developments will come to rural areas and agriculture will blossom. How do you expect someone to invest long-term in assets he does not have legal rights? Part of the problems with agriculture could be traced to our property rights. That would be fixed.
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Whether the APC and PDP are ready to do business or not, they should just give us Osinbajo and Peter Obi respectively, then we can sort out the remaining details from there. If either party derails from these names, we will assume that it’s on a suicide mission and shall assist to quicken the extinction process.
We do not have much time left to start debating and arguing on non essentials, with these two Nigerians holding their parties respective flags, we will streamline our pointed questions on each component of governance, so that whoever gives responses laced with practical realities can get ahead.
If either wins and Nigeria still refuses to work, then we can comfortably declare that the land is gone forever, enough of the daydreaming.
Since politics is too serious a business to be left in the hands politicians alone, we cannot allow members of APC and PDP alone to decide who flies their respective flags, we have to impress it upon them that any name outside the ones with decent dose of likability, will bring the party to a miserable end.
It’s time to collect the same stick they have been hitting people with and teach them some lessons.
It couldn’t be better said. Our nation is too important to be left in the hands of headless leaders to decide where we go from here. There’s no more time to wait, it is now or never.
@ Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe’s proposal is only attainable with people like Obi or Prof Osinbajo and the leader.