Sometime last week I was on facebook and I saw something that caught my attention: a link from a blog talking about a post from one of Nigeria’s top most leading actor now a politician and former governorship candidate of Anambra state in the just concluded Governorship election and the post was titled “Dreams Die here”.
The post quotes him in a tweet telling a story of his Doctor friend who had practiced medicine in Nigeria for 10years with really nothing to show for it and went abroad to work for just a year and came back, got married, started buying lands.etc.
Now in as much as most people will agree with him I have a few problems with that statement, but before I tell you my problem with that statement I’ll tell you why that statement is mostly true.
First of all, statistics has shown that most Nigerian doctors are living the country for greeener pstures and contributing to a large extent a great percentage of work-force in the health sector of other countries and I dare say that they are also taking charge and leading in their field.
Secondly, most Nigerians who leave the shores of this country to other countries are one of the best in their fields of expertise but not recognised and not worth anything in this country, as a matter of fact some people who were not “qualified” to study certain courses in Nigerian tertiary institutions go out there and become the best in their field of expertees. Which begs the question; If those countries have better educational systems then why can’t these bright student qualify to study in this country?
Thirdly, other economy has always been better than Nigeria generally and also in the aspect of supporting their citizens and since the advent of this regime it has become worse. I‘ll love to go on and on but lets leave that for another article.
Having said these, I still insist that Yul Edochie is very wrong because truth be told, all these excuses above did not stop the likes of Dangote and Otedola and the rest from getting as rich as they are.
So here are some of the reasons I disagree with Yul
Firstly, I have seen doctors in this Nigeria who lived and practiced medicine in this Nigeria and made very good money and bought houses, lands and estates from their profession. Giving that the ratio of Doctor to patient in Nigeria stands at 1:6,000 means there are still more rooms for doctors in the nation so anyone who studies medicine already, automatically has a job waiting for him somewhere in this country.
Secondly, contrary to popular opinion the LAND is NOT GREEN, the PEOPLE are. What I mean is this; the land where God has placed you is the only land you can suceed in. The land where you are meant to suceed in is the only land you’ll suceed in. If it is not Nigeria then no matter what you do you cannot succeed in Nigeria. If this wasn’t so I don’t think there will be any sucessful doctors in Nigeria at all or any Nigerian struggling to study medicine in school. Success is not and has never been tied to a country or a place neither has failure, it is tied to people and how they go about it in life if not I don’t think Dangote, Otedola and the host of others will be sucessful today.
Thirdly, the likes of MI, Banky W, Tiwa Savage and a few other wave making artist in Nigeria have gone abroad and they all came back to Nigeria and made it big here; and this is applicable to a good number of fields in Nigeria not just entertainment-in fact our family doctor went abroad and studied and came back to Nigeria to practice, question is; why didn’t they make it there? Or just stay there If those places where the only places DREAMS DON’T DIE? Why are there beggars on the street of USA as well as other first world countries if that place is the only place where DREAMS DON’T DIE? Why do they also have people whose dreams where shattered and destroyed in their own country where these Nigerians come and suceed immensely? Why did the likes of Mike Adenuga come back to Nigeria after studing abroad to become one of Nigeria’s and Africa’s foremeost telecommunications giant?
Come to think of it Yul Edochie himself, is leaving his dreams here in Nigeria and ruling the movie industry, why didn’t he follow his friend, maybe he would have won the Anambra governorship election if he was there since dreams don’t die there. #This_is_NOT_a_Hate speech. I admire Yul and respect him, but I’m just trying to prove a point so pleae don’t take this out of context.
If you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, how you are supposed to be doing it, when you are supposed to be doing it, with whom you are supposed to be doing it with then you must succeeed. Except if your village people are playing ten-ten with your destiny, then my brethren you are screwed ….lol
I hope, with this few points of mine, I’ve been able to CONFUSE not convince you that YOUR DREAMS WON’T DIE IN NIGERIA….lol
What I’m trying to say is that, dreams can die here, just as they can die anywhere in the world, and they can also live here just as they can live anywhere in the world. So please don’t call Nigeria a place where dreams die whether your dream is alive or not because just as one person’s dream died here in Nigeria there are others in places not Nigeria whose dreams have died as well.
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