ARRANGEE: AFRICAN RENAISSANCE ETHIOPIA AND BACKWARD NIGERIA PADDINGTONS.
I was in Ethiopia recently with a group of horticulturist seeking opportunity in the Agricultural sector of the second largest country population wise in Africa, I was FLABBERGASTED by the level of rapid development I saw on all fronts despite the long years of famine and war that ravaged Ethiopia.
Bole International Airport is a refreshing edifice to any traveller's optical nerve a welcoming ambiance of architectural ingenuity with a superb use of daylight for environmental compliance.
Sincerely speaking you feel at home on arrival in Ethiopia in comparison to the molestation & backwardness we get when we travel home as you disembark at the Murtala Mohammed Airport.
It is unspeakable and a painful feeling that our country Nigeria finds it difficult to develop infrastructures of international standard.
I was also shocked to see how green Addis Ababa has become with old trees interspersed with new ones in a famine and war ravaged country two decades ago. Kudos to the leadership of this African renaissance.
The agricultural industrial complex and the accelarated economic growth I witnessed in Ethiopia gave me a breath of fresh air as to the capabilities of some governments in Africa to develop their economy with the right focus, policies and political leadership willingness to do what is right for their populace.
I saw the Ethiopia Metro line project & Ethiopia to Djibouti railway project both electric rails with Ethiopia renaissance dam project which when completed will supply more than enough electricity to the whole nation and neighbouring friendly countries alike.
Nigerians, the more visitation I had to project sites the more anguish and disappointment I felt for the mannerism in which our leaders in Nigeria manage(d) the economic prosperity we have/had as a nation, worrisomely the paddingtons walking naked in the market place of perfidy and ethical putrefaction in our national assembly do not give me any hope of a significant transformation in the ways we do things in the foreseeable future in Nigeria unless we have a massive purgation of these generation of political elite in our clime.
The obvious fundamental question that came to my mind while viewing all these developmental milestones in Ethiopia is the issue of why & why not. Though I knew the answers to my questions and painful ruminations are corruption cum nonexistence of the idea of common good and public interest in our body polity yet there is this burning desire in me to look beyond those conflagrations given the latest padding saga ravaging the nations space of dishonourability reminisence of the If you Daboh me I will Tarka you of old.
A ''scenic" corrupt environment of budget padding that is bumping and swirling around like tornado in an undulating landscapes of hills and valley of shame known as the national assembly of fraud, precisely speaking the Dogara cum Jibrin dance of perfidy that is repetitively being étalage on the pages of newspapers is very disgusting to the extent that we need to bury our heads in opprobrium as a nation.
While other smaller countries in Africa are advancing their sustainable development goals agenda we are busy as a nation reeling in dirt of monumental corruption and economic sabotage, everywhere we go we take our fraud infested odoriferous garbs with us that are noticeable and oozing out putrefied reputation to the extent that our host tends not to take us serious as a nation/people.
It is time we do soul searching ablution/cleansing as a nation because we are becoming a laughing stock within the comity of good nations. my trip to Ethiopia is a blessing and a teachable cum reflective moment for me as a Nigerian to discover that we still have a long way to go in terms of development in comparison to other African nations given the enormous resources available to us and how good we have been able to squander all the opportunities we have had in the past.
The Giant of African is now the Lilliputian of the world. A sorry state indeed.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: pearl2prince
Bole International Airport is a refreshing edifice to any traveller's optical nerve a welcoming ambiance of architectural ingenuity with a superb use of daylight for environmental compliance.
Sincerely speaking you feel at home on arrival in Ethiopia in comparison to the molestation & backwardness we get when we travel home as you disembark at the Murtala Mohammed Airport.
It is unspeakable and a painful feeling that our country Nigeria finds it difficult to develop infrastructures of international standard.
I was also shocked to see how green Addis Ababa has become with old trees interspersed with new ones in a famine and war ravaged country two decades ago. Kudos to the leadership of this African renaissance.
The agricultural industrial complex and the accelarated economic growth I witnessed in Ethiopia gave me a breath of fresh air as to the capabilities of some governments in Africa to develop their economy with the right focus, policies and political leadership willingness to do what is right for their populace.
I saw the Ethiopia Metro line project & Ethiopia to Djibouti railway project both electric rails with Ethiopia renaissance dam project which when completed will supply more than enough electricity to the whole nation and neighbouring friendly countries alike.
Nigerians, the more visitation I had to project sites the more anguish and disappointment I felt for the mannerism in which our leaders in Nigeria manage(d) the economic prosperity we have/had as a nation, worrisomely the paddingtons walking naked in the market place of perfidy and ethical putrefaction in our national assembly do not give me any hope of a significant transformation in the ways we do things in the foreseeable future in Nigeria unless we have a massive purgation of these generation of political elite in our clime.
The obvious fundamental question that came to my mind while viewing all these developmental milestones in Ethiopia is the issue of why & why not. Though I knew the answers to my questions and painful ruminations are corruption cum nonexistence of the idea of common good and public interest in our body polity yet there is this burning desire in me to look beyond those conflagrations given the latest padding saga ravaging the nations space of dishonourability reminisence of the If you Daboh me I will Tarka you of old.
A ''scenic" corrupt environment of budget padding that is bumping and swirling around like tornado in an undulating landscapes of hills and valley of shame known as the national assembly of fraud, precisely speaking the Dogara cum Jibrin dance of perfidy that is repetitively being étalage on the pages of newspapers is very disgusting to the extent that we need to bury our heads in opprobrium as a nation.
While other smaller countries in Africa are advancing their sustainable development goals agenda we are busy as a nation reeling in dirt of monumental corruption and economic sabotage, everywhere we go we take our fraud infested odoriferous garbs with us that are noticeable and oozing out putrefied reputation to the extent that our host tends not to take us serious as a nation/people.
It is time we do soul searching ablution/cleansing as a nation because we are becoming a laughing stock within the comity of good nations. my trip to Ethiopia is a blessing and a teachable cum reflective moment for me as a Nigerian to discover that we still have a long way to go in terms of development in comparison to other African nations given the enormous resources available to us and how good we have been able to squander all the opportunities we have had in the past.
The Giant of African is now the Lilliputian of the world. A sorry state indeed.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: pearl2prince
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