By: Olayinka Latona

The Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Pastor Sam Adeyemi said it has become imperative for the federal government to have a sustainable national vision with which successive administration will follow, irrespective of political affiliation.

Adeyemi who lamented at the gradual erosion of values among citizens pointed out that lack of a sustainable national Vision serve as a draw back to speedy policy.

He said this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, on Tuesday.

In his words:”I see absence of vision. Vision is the basis for evaluation, if we fail to agree on where we are going as a nation, how will we know when we got there not to talk of discussing the vehicle that will take us there and how fast to get there.

“At the national level, more than ever before we need to address this issue of development as part of our vision. Where is Nigeria going?, what kind of country do we want Nigeria to become, if not we realized that we are building here some other people are tearing there. We need the path to national vision down to the state level.”

The cleric who lamented at the level of suffering in the country charged Nigerians especially the elite class to agree on where the country should go and the destination in achieving the desired change and development.

Adeyemi called on the religious institutions to used their phenomena power to speak and shape the lifes of their members stressing Its time to commit to making Nigeria work.

In his words: ” National Assembly, House of Assembly, governors, those in business sectors, head of religious institutions, civil societies. it will be in our self interest to get Nigeria to work now.
“The younger generation are more enlightened, they have access to more information they are not going to keep silent for long. it’s going to get rougher and rougher because they are going to demand accountability and good leadership.

“Secondly, the level of suffering is increasing exponentially. You push people to the wall, they say ‘the average Nigerian you push him to the wall, he will dig through the wall’. Don’t take that for granted. Some are not going to dig through the wall.
“We need to act with urgency to pull together and push for a discussion. it happens before, we need to know what values, system, structure that will get us to the right direction. I also appeal to the family to instill right values into their homes.

Speaking on the Nigeria educational, Adeyemi described it as ‘Tinderbox’ ready to explode: “When a nation has a vision, it then builds the people that will fulfill that vision. The quality of a nation cannot be better than quality of the people. what goes into a mind comes out of a life. Some of our best resources needs to go into developing our young people. Elsewhere, 95% of schools are public, only 5% are private and some of the public ones have better quality than the private ones. In our country, 95% of good ones are private while 5% are public. This will never get us anywhere. This is something that requires urgency, national conversation by all of us. we cannot afford to have our children out of school. Do we want to raise nation of criminal?, that is why it’s very easy for them to be recruited into bandits. We are on the Tinderbox and all of us need to act with urgency before it explodes.

At the local level there is need to engage the local government chairman, the counsellors what are they doing about our schools and we need to corporate. Even contribute money to improve on our infrastructure and quality of teachers”, he said