Prospective Ideas: 2014-08-10

Friday, August 15, 2014

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

IT STARTS WITH ME AND YOU.

Do you know that a former President of United States Of America, John F Kennedy stole what was to become the best-known quote of his 1961 inaugural address – from his old headmaster? The Quote goes thus….
'ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU – ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY', Which many of us had heard time and time again.

The essence of this fact finding is not to tell you John F Kennedy stole a quote from his old headmaster, and subsequently used the quote throughout his campaign for presidential election in United States of America. In any case, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan used “I HAD NO SHOE” rhetoric during his campaign in the 2011 Presidential election in Nigeria and won millions of sympathy vote for that statement, ”I had no shoe”. In my quest to see if I could do something about Ebola in Nigeria, I ask what did we not do right in the first place as to allow the scourge of EBOLA threaten our PEACE?

The first thing which came to my mind is Inadequacy of Information dissemination; we did not do enough to raise the consciousness of this dreaded disease called EBOLA.

Secondly, Ignorance is a killer disease; it kills faster than EBOLA itself. With the news all over the world about Ebola, how come our health practitioners still was not prepared for the uneventful EBOLA?

Thirdly, we lack basic facilities to manage this Ebola menace in almost all our health centers, public places, homes and what a view.

Lastly, Government ought to have declared an emergency since the very first day Sawyer brought this Ebola to Nigeria, the ordinary and common people on the street seems not to know that EBOLA is deadlier than CANCER. I suggest the level of orientation and awareness is given top level PRIORITY so at least we can all manage the situation better than what we have presently.

The fight starts from household to public places, Government, parastatals, corporate environments, individuals, etc. It begins with ME and YOU.

'ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU – ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY', WHICH MANY OF US HAD HEARD 'TIME AND TIME AGAIN'.

Lekan Olanite