On Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day, Rescue Nigeria was officially announced with the statement “It is time to battle the mindsets and forces keeping us down.” One year later, we noted with a broken heart that Nigeria had backslidden much further.
We restated our view that Nigeria had become “a ship lost at sea, unable to deliver the goods at the port, nor return to its origin,” and that failure and near-hopelessness were spreading to every component part of the country.
Our call at 61 was clear: Nigeria needs to restructure, and Nigerians must start working for the common good — beginning with their own conduct as citizens.