President George Weah of Liberia has conferred the award of “Distinguished Service Order of the Republic of Liberia” on some Army officers from Nigeria. According to Mr. Weah, the officers were instrumental in developing the Armed Forces of Liberia.
You can scale this to Police, Law and other disciplines. In Gambia, everyone hailed the Nigerian who crafted their Constitution which seemed really great during one of their transition phases, after a president who lost an election decided not to leave office.
Simply, across all dimensions, Nigerians do great things outside Nigeria but when at home, it seems …. You see ENDSARS and the pains from the Police, yet the UN keeps giving the Police awards for exemplary service around the world. We see the military sometimes as not playing fair (cases in point: Odi, Orlu, etc) and yet Liberia is honouring them. We have a Constitution which everyone agrees is not working, yet a Nigerian crafted a really good one outside.
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In a southern African country, a Nigerian is responsible for the stability of their currency. I met this guy in Kenya a few years ago (he goes with a local name of this country even though he is from Abia state). He has kept that damn currency stable, even when Naira keeps obeying unnecessary gravity.
What is the problem?
President George Weah of Liberia has conferred award of “Distinguished Service Order of the Republic of Liberia” on some Nigerian Army senior officers at the nation’s 65th Armed Forces Celebration.
The Director, Army Public Relations Officer, Onyema Nwachukwu, a brigadier general, in a statement on Saturday, said the award was in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the Liberian Armed Forces.
Mr Nwachukwu said that the Liberian President made the presentation during the 65th Armed Forces of Liberia Day Celebration held on Friday at the Barclay Training Centre, Camp Johnson Road, Monrovia, Liberia.
He quoted President Weah as saying that the Liberian government gave the awards annually to individuals whose outstanding contribution had significantly impacted the growth and development of Liberia, its armed forces and humanity.
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Comment 1: The starting point is, if we deploy the same people doing all the exploits in other places here, will they be able to replicate same? It’s a difficult question to answer, because our terrain is different.
The second point is, can they get the level of support they get in those places here? A difficult question, because the level of distrust among various tribes is very dizzying, forget the noise and sophistry across social media, we can be a handful when special interests get into the mix.
As for writing a constitution, almost all the constitutions since 1960 had Ben Nwabueze’s fingerprints in them, how many legal luminaries out of continental Africa is finer than Nwabueze? So, give and take, we could easily get Africa’s finest to help us with workable constitution, but again, we are a handful…
The funny thing is that, all the people angling to lead Nigeria can’t really fix the land, because they are already compromised, that ethical blindness always weighs heavily when it comes to making a call that could transform a generation, meaning that they will chicken out.
Nigeria is not at the level where you tout ‘strong institutions’ as the solution, no, you need STRONG human, in character and moral excellence, not mean face.
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