The Plane Truth

Dateline: Sunday October 29, 2006. Yet another plane crash in Nigeria.

My UnEnding condolences to the families of the victims.

To my shock, it seems we haven’t learnt any lessons from the past.

People are busy blaming everybody else, blaming even the dead pilot!

The popular buzzword is now flying around- “REFORMS”

Interactive sessions with stakeholders. Committees. Panels. White Papers…

When will this stop?

We don’t need more cosmetic measures. We need a clear vision of where Nigeria is going. What kind of nation will we be in the next 5 years? In the next 10 years? In the next 50 years?

We cannot keep stumbling along, using people’s lives to do “patch-patch” maintenance.

That’s the plain truth.