"TRUST" Is Our Greatest Challege As A Nation...

So the other day I was out on an errand, while waiting to be attended to, I got into a conversation with the other people there. I asked; What Nigeria’s Greatest Challenge Is?

The answers included, power, industrialization, oil and gas, agriculture etc. But one answer stood out the most. An elderly man present there said “Nigeria’s Greatest Challenge Is TRUST”. I thought for awhile and then agreed with his answer ‘that our greatest challenge is truly TRUST’.  

You may wonder how trust is a challenge, so here, lemme make you understand, but first, let us understand what is meant by TRUST.

According to Wikipedia; In a social context, trust has several connotations. Definitions of trust typically refer to a situation characterized by the following aspects: One party (trustor) is willing to rely on the actions of another party (trustee); the situation is directed to the future. 

In addition, the trustor (voluntarily or forcedly) abandons control over the actions performed by the trustee. As a consequence, the trustor is uncertain about the outcome of the other's actions; they can only develop and evaluate expectations. The uncertainty involves the risk of failure or harm to the trustor if the trustee will not behave as desired.

Trust can also be attributed to relationships between people. It can be demonstrated that humans have a natural disposition to trust and to judge trustworthiness that can be traced to the neurobiological structure and activity of a human brain. Some studies indicate that trust can be altered e.g. by the application of oxytocin. But this is not what we are interesting in here. Lol.

Conceptually, trust is also attributable to relationships within and between social groups (history, families, friends, communities, organizations, companies, nations, etc.).

In the social sciences, the subtleties of trust are a subject of ongoing research. In sociology and psychology the degree to which one party trusts another is a measure of belief in the honesty, fairness, or benevolence of another party. The term "confidence" is more appropriate for a belief in the competence of the other party. Based on the most recent research, a failure in trust may be forgiven more easily if it is interpreted as a failure of competence rather than a lack of benevolence or honesty.

From the above definitions we can simply define Trust as a belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc.

Obviously this is the greatest challenge we Nigerian’s are facing. We don’t trust friends and family, we don’t even trust ourselves, and how then can we trust our leaders?

But it’s not our fault. Our leaders keep letting us down, hereby constantly breaking our trust.

They make us lose the belief and faith we have in them. They are not reliable, good, honest and effective. Why then should we trust them?

·         I cannot trust a man who acts in his favor instead of the favor of the people.

·         How can we trust leaders who value their pockets more than the welfare of their people?

·         Why should we trust leaders who are hypocrites?

·         Leaders who take all, want more and gives nothing back?

If we had faith and trust in our leaders then Nigeria will be a better place.

But am sorry to say, the leaders we have had so far are big hypocrites and untrustworthy.

• How do we advance when we don't trust ourselves? 
• How can bills be passed, when our leaders are not trustworthy? 
• How can we have good infrastructures, when politicians handle these contracts, and we don't trust them?
• How then can we advance when our leaders make us doubt their every move? 

We Lack Trust In Our Leaders...  Because they are not TRUSTWORTHY and COMPETENT...

THAT’S OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE.

The Real Nigeria!!!