What’s empowerment? Empowerment is authority or power given to someone to do something. Act or action of granting power, authority and or right to individuals to be able to survive independently on their own.
Individuals are given the empowerment to create their dwellings. The process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights.
Political Steps For The Empowerment Of People
To tell ourselves the simple truth according to the definitions of empowerment above,
Is that what our Nigerian politicians are doing?
How can we be saying that we are empowering people and the little things we are giving out are distributed and or shared among the well- to- do folks that are not really in need of them? I have come to realise that what we do most times is to distribute some items and monies among the well-to-do people, and you will later see these set of people selling out those items because they don’t really need them.
During most of what Nigerian politicians are claiming to be empowerment, you will see items like cars, motorcycles, grinding machines, sewing machines, and farm equipment, to mention but a few, being shared among the well-to-do people who are not really in need of those items, and they will now later sell them to those who are in dire need of them.
Is that not what our politicians are doing?
And is that what we call empowerment? Who is fooling who? Who has bewitched us in this country? Normally and under normal circumstances, those items should be shared with those who are in dire need of them to be able to live and survive independently, but the reverse is the case in Nigeria today. I think it’s high time we Nigerians take good time to learn what true, genuine empowerment is and stop fooling and deceiving ourselves,
How can you collect what you know you are bigger than? What you know that you do not need. This is deception and wickedness of the highest order. We must stop this barbaric and horrible practice so that we can move forward and join the ranks of developing countries.
Akinselure is the convener of Operation Rebuilding The Broken Walls And Hope Initiative
