LET'S HELP OURSELVES FIRST

The growing mentality of Nigerians that government can do everything for us is becoming worrisome. It has reach a level where people will just relax and wait for the government to do everything for them. Some of us cannot even keep our houses clean, not to talk of the community, yet we are at the forefront of criticizing govt and those in position of authority. Its important to note that govt has the responsibility of providing basic necessity of life to the people, but even in the advance countries their govt have not solve all their problems, that's why you see them engage in community service.  It is unfortunate that some of us that do criticise govt have the drainage systems in front of our houses blocked, in fact some us dump refuse inside the water way or the drainage, yet shamelessly we are on the social media making noise about others. Some of us have never impacted anything in our communities, even to advice the younger generation on how to live a better life we don't do that, yet we condemn others. Isn't it funny that some of us are even graduates yet none of our younger generations are benefiting from our wealth of knowledge.  It is high that we begin to think twice and begin to do the right thing. Kudos to the youths of Hausari in Maiduguri, i saw them cleaning their environment collectively without waiting for the govt to come and do it for them, that's the spirit of community service. If youths from all over will collectively try to address some of the problems in our communities, and table the ones above our capacity to the govt, that will go a long in alleviating some of our challenges. If you are a graduate and you have a public school in your area, pls create time to at least volunteer to teach the children in that school.  For those who are rich and yet could not make impact in their communities, i say shame on you. There was a time i reported a case where one politician from Maiduguri hijacked a borehole that was constructed by govt for his community and only operate the borehole when he need water in his house, the worst part of it is that the poor people there had to pay some money before they fetch the water yet, govt is providing diesel for the borehole. This is heartlessness of the highest order, yet so many of the so called elites are engaged in such act.  Let's come together and impact positively in our communities, govt cannot do everything for us. Those of us criticizing, let us try to show what we have done on our own so that we can have the moral ground to criticise those in position of authority. Pls take not that am not saying we should stop criticizing our leaders constructively, but am saying let's help ourselves first.