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Ofi Ejembi
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Minister•Broadcaster•Extractives• I tweet LEADERSHIP: Christian Faith: #DearBeliever Nation Building: #FellowNigerians Men Rising: #DearBrother 🇳🇬 🇺🇸
Apr 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The biggest tragedy isn't that insecurity is rife and human life is treated like poultry.
It isn't that the economy is in shambles. Or that nepotism, ethnocentricism and cronyism are offical policy.
The tragedy is much worse...

A thread.
1/ The tragedy is that we think it just started "today" or when the current culprits came to the fore.

The tragedy is we REFUSE to see that as a PEOPLE we have lied, ignored and enabled folly to this point. We embraced prejudice and applauded thieves.
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Sep 16, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Dear Nigerians, "the system" is not the problem.
Systems are created by PEOPLE. The very people who enjoy or suffer from a system create that system by their actions and inactions.

One of the central theories in Sociology is the Behaviorist Paradigm which posits that... 2/
 ...the social realities of a people are mere creations of the PREVALENT MINDSET held by the MAJORITY OF CITIZENS over time. A key scholar of this theory, Max Weber, in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capialism" outlined how the theology of the likes ofJohn Calvin...