False Knowledge Vs Ignorance Essay

KADUNA STATE LAND GRABBERS, THEIR SUPPORTERS AND OUR GENERAL INTERESTS

"False knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance" - George Bernard Shaw

My people will s...ay "matambayi baya bata"; which is literally saying those who ask will never get lost. And that is why I like people who are not too ashamed or egotistical to ask when they are lost as to why certain things happen or why they didn't, people who ask to know what happen and what didn't. Because only then will they know what actually happen.

Sometimes, especially on social media, when you humbly ask, the response you will get will be many, varying, conflicting and most times bias and sentimental, but it is only after that that you will make informed decisions and when you publicize your opinion your position and reasoning may be sound.

If you don't have the necessary information and you don't ask, then your judgement will not only be biased but will make you look foolish.

These days people are hardly patient. Some are so desperate to be a journalist and public analyst they are competing for who is first with the "breaking news" or who is first to analyse without all the necessary information.

A few days ago, while many were rushing to post and repost on what is going on in Kaduna State and sharing and re-sharing the views of a certain politician, my good friend, Bimbo Ariyo, who is in UK, about 5,000 kilometers away, made a post and ask a simple question, "Hassan DM, what is going on?" I know what is going on, I've written about it, he read it. But he is also reading something else. So, I set out to visit the affected public institutions and take some pictures to send to him, before I respond again.

On that politician and the governor, I had this to tell Bimbo, that in comparison, this is what is going on. We need to just look at the two personalities.

1) We have two people and two different approach. One wants to be popular and relevant. The other want to leave a

legacy.
2) One is holding an inconsequential position, by Nigerian standard, where no one will ask him how he affected the life people. The other is holding a position where at the end of 4 years we will access his performance both in quality and in quantity. Thus one want to liked, the other want to be appreciated.
3) One is not interested if he is reelected or not, because he has his eyes set on bigger things, and is only interested in providing leadership, and another man who is only interested in being a politician. That is why one is busy working and the other one is saying "at the rate he is going will ruin us". To that person, it is not about delivering good governance, in the long run. It is about reelection.
4) We have one man interested in changing his state and his people over the long term, and another one interested in the short run. That's why one is drastically aiming at wholesale change in the way states affairs are managed, and another one is interested in distributing camels to people during Sallah. In sum, one is short term gains, the other is for long term benefits.
5) Above all, one is "representing" a portion of the state in Abuja, where no one will hold him accountable for lack of roads, water, health facilities, theft of public property etc. The other one is totally and completely responsible for the whole state. That is why when one said a Governor is same as Senator, and some actually believe him, I laughed. Really? If that is true, he should stop whining and wailing and revert the executive orders.