The task of ensuring that Nigeria realizes its destiny as a Nation is the responsibility of everyone. In recent times however it seems to have been viewed as the sole responsibility of the government. Actually the people in government are supposed to be people who have been chosen by the citizens to ensure that available resources are properly managed with a view to ensuring the realization of national vision.
This simply means that we have responsibilities as individuals to ensuring that the country realizes its destiny. The government is made up of the few who have been chosen either by election or appointment to represent others at the place of decision making. That is the reason they should usually create a way to reach the rest of us and get our views before taking a stand on vital issues.
It is evident from the foregoing therefore, that everyone has to develop themselves to the extent they would have something reasonable to contribute to the realization of national vision. Besides the payment of taxes, each individual should think of what to bring along in ensuring that our nation gets to its desired place of destiny.
This brings us to the issue of values. Our values are those things that are most important to us. They determine our behaviour and decisions per time as well as guide our choices. Someone who does not value fun at all will not be ready to spend money on recreation neither would someone who does not value learning ever think of attending a training, seminar and so on, unless it is compulsory. Overtime in our country it appears people right from school do not like reading. That is because of lack of value for learning. Because it appears in our schools that reading is just for the purpose of examination to the next level, students tend to pay less attention to reading to learn, believing they could still pass the examination through all forms of examination malpractices.
Organizations usually have ideologies which are distilled into corporate core values; those are the things every member of those organizations is expected to adhere to en route the realization of the organization’s objectives. It is usually expected that as every member of an organization adheres to those values at work place and in all business transactions, that leads to certain form of behaviours, which eventually becomes the organization’s way of life, hence corporate culture.
Most times organizations where staff do not pay attention to core values, do not have corporate culture, ultimately such organization struggles to meet their objectives. It is even worse where an organization does not have core values. In such situation, staff are confused about the way to live, most of them simply introduce cultural and ethnic prejudices at work place, creating dichotomy in office relationships and customer relations. Eventually such organization would be known for such behaviours which the staffs display among themselves and towards customers. On the long run it does not work for the good of the organization.
Such appears to be the case of our country, Nigeria. As a country we appear not to have a national vision, national mission, neither do we appear to have national core values, therefore everyone carries on according to the views of their clan, or immediate societies. Prejudices that seem to have become the order of the day within our country against people of different ethnic groups is further fuelled by the fact that we do not have national core values which should supersede what anyone thinks about others. The sense of pursuing national purpose, through national vision would have consumed everyone to the extent that what would occupy our thinking would be living the way we should live in order to realize the vision.
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