WORRIED by the socio-economic and political challenges facing the country, the Council of Yoruba Elders (CYE) has called on the Federal Government to restructure the country in a way that fosters overall development of the country and its people. The council also declared that the challenges facing the country, at the moment, are grinding it to a halt, adding that nothing is working. It stated this in a press release titled “The Practical Beginning of the Journey to the Restructuring of Nigeria” which was signed by its secretary-general, Dr Victor Taiwo, at the weekend.
The council observed that “Nigeria’s general structures have collapsed like a pack of cards. The country is fast being driven to a cul-de-sac, a grand halt. Today nothing is practically working in Nigeria.
“The citizens are currently battling with the acute menace of starvation, hyper-inflation, naira currency floating, unemployment, collapse of industries, education coma, health jaundice, electricity flight, kidnapping, ritual killings, armed robbery, insecurity and general poverty in the land. And come to think of it, there seems to be no hope in the horizon.” It also pointed out that the “crooked, knock-kneed structure of this country was built on a foundation made of quicksand,” adding that most leaders and politicians in the country are “strange bedfellows of sharply incompatible traits whose cohesion can never be moulded right by all the wisdom and forces in the world.
It is just too pe.
