After reading Chinua Achebe's "There was a country" a personal account. I was and am still in awe of the facts presented and a particular paragraph rings through and true.
What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country as surely as a war - ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery. Nations enshrine mediocrity as their modus operandi and create the fertile ground for the rise of tyrants and other base elements of the society, by silently assenting to the dismantling the systems of excellence because the do not immediately benefit one specific ethnic, racial, political or special interest- group. That in my humble opinion, is precisely where Nigeria finds herself today!
