Great minds and their thought process.

Great minds and their thought process.

by Okomyson Mark on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 3:17pm

How I wish that all men will have such love for their people and do everything to uplift and sustain the lives of their fellow men. I never met him, but this quotation from my good friend, a Muslim, an Arab, a God fearing religious citizen and a human being like me. made me to now call him a man with a great mind... I  have never heard any leader utter such, even during, or after they have been elected, or being voted  into a public office, or even after they leave office. And I am now wondering, as the Nigerian election is coming, if my only wish for my country will come through this time and that is that we will finally have a leader who`s only interest is to develop Nigeria . Each time I thought of a leader and who he should be like, I remember the Prime minister of the United Arab Emirate..As I think about him and comparing him with all our politicians and the way they behave in Nigeria, I get so upset with their utterances, manipulations and uselessness most especially when they hide under the guise of religion and commit all kinds of atrocities against their fellow citizens.

Somehow I wonder if there is a difference between our own type of Muslim religious believe that my fellow citizens practice in Nigeria and other parts of the world.  Because instead of building, we are destroying our environment and killing our fellow citizens in the name of religion, and the worst part of it is that as these atrocities are going on or being perpetrated, you still hear people saying Allah-Akbar and so on.. From the little I know about Arabic, that should mean that God is great.. Now tell me how God can be great when our fellow citizens are being killed in his name.. when I read the news about my country Nigeria and the uselessness of our so called leaders, I  start to wonder if we  actually know  why we are made to be in this life in the first place and what our purpose in life is, because I am sure it does not involve killing  our fellow men for whatever reason or destroying our environment and still have the effrontery to commit God`s name into it....... whether its a Christian or Muslim, the result is still the same. in Nigeria, the more he or she proclaim to be religious, the more corrupt he or she becomes. go to the north, the south, east and west, the devastation and rechednes of the people are all obvious and Iam still wondering how we can sit in the same church, mosque or wherever and claim to know even the direction of heaven

This was a response that this my friend gave on a TV interview about the rate at which he was building his country.And it has become my favorite quotation...... When the reporter from CBS 60 minutes program asked to know why he is developing his country at the rate he was going about it, which according to the reporter"... development that could take other developed countries 10 to 15 year to achieve, this was his reply

"....If development and all the good things of life like good roads, fully equipped specialist hospitals, industries, housing for my fellow citizens and a first class education etc, can take other countries of the world 10 - 15 years to achieve. I want my people to have all those today, not tomorrow, or 10- 15 years from now.I want them to have all the good things of life, especially all that makes life easy to live now that I am still alive..."

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The prime Minister of the United Arab Emirate.

That single answer made me to love him and I wish that every other leader especially from my country Nigeria will learn from him.our leaders have no excuse. So instead of encouraging the destruction of what we already have , let us start building our country and stop all these hatred and killings in the name of God and stop glorifying God in the process.

If we really believe that we can be great like other countries of the world we should start thinking like great people, with great minds and let our thought process be based on production and not destruction, because whatever the excuse for all the killings and destructions, it will never improve our lives.Our problem have never been about our different religious believes but rather the lack of leaders with great minds......

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