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uman actors are the most valuable constant in a revolutionary rejig and metemorphosis of a given human condition either positively or otherwise within any given historical epoch.
The methodology of such human actions and actors is contingent on the level of knowledge available in a given socioeconomic and geographical space, coupled with the political will to make neccessary changes.
Here we are talking of a paradigm shift for sustainability and the protection of our ecosystem within the purview of a productive arrangement that is meant to eradicate poverty.
Give me the means to feed myself and family, I will be a happy productive citizen, deny me that means and the results are dysfunctionality, abject poverty, disease, squalor, and environmental neglect.
A look in the food basket of a household gives one an idea of the status, socio economic wise of that singular autonomous household.The same rationale could be used when taking a look in the "Buurt" neighbourhoods, then you get a sense of the abject poverty and underdevelopment prevailing in that socio commune, or the richness abundance and merry making nature of the potentates domicile within that splendor.
Today a visit to the slums in various parts of the country revealed the dysfunctional state in which the inhabitants of those places are co-existing with garbages and filthy environment in a dehumanizing auto-constructed shacks in places like Ajegunle, Badia, Mushin, Isale eko, etc.
WHERE ARE THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS?
"The global mobilization behind the Millennium Development Goals has produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history.
The landmark commitment entered into by world leaders in the year 2000—to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty”—was translated into an inspiring framework of eight goals and, then, into wide-ranging practical steps that have enabled people across the world to improve their lives and their future
prospects.
The MDGs helped to lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty, to make inroads against hunger, to enable more girls to attend school than ever before and to protect our planet.
They generated new and innovative partnerships, galvanized public opinion and showed the immense value of setting ambitious goals.
By putting people and their immediate needs at the forefront, the MDGs reshaped decision-making in developed and developing countries alike.
Yet for all the remarkable gains, I am keenly aware that inequalities persist and that progress has been uneven.
The world’s poor remain overwhelmingly concentrated in some parts of the world. In 2011, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s one billion extremely poor people lived in just five countries.
Too many women continue to die during pregnancy or from childbirth-related complications.
Progress tends to bypass women and those who are lowest on the economic ladder or are disadvantaged because of their age, disability or ethnicity.
Disparities between rural and urban areas remain pronounced. Experiences and evidence from the efforts to achieve the MDGs demonstrate that we know what to do. But further progress will require an unswerving political will, and collective, long-term effort. We need to tackle root causes and do more to integrate the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
The emerging post-2015 development agenda, including the set of Sustainable Development Goals, strives to reflect these lessons, build on our successes and put all countries, together, firmly on track towards a more prosperous, sustainable and equitable world.
Reflecting on the MDGs and looking ahead to the next fifteen years, there is no question that we can deliver on our shared responsibility to put an end to poverty, leave no one behind and create a world of dignity for all".
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General, United Nations
Most inhabitants of the slum have turned the garbages and filth into an important economic means of surviving in a pernicious underdevelopment climate like ours, in the absence of good sustainable alternatives.
KUDOS TO THEM I HEAR YOU SAY.
Why are our government lagging behind in key areas of human development?
It is noteworthy to say here that nutrition under this perilous condition is unhealthy, medical services are unavailable and if and when they are available they are absolutely inadequate, so infant mortality and maternal death are rife, but there are no available statistics or ways of telling how many of them died in direct consequence.
Don't we need a massive investment in social work in these areas?
A sorry state of affairs indeed to find kids, youth, growing up in such squatters settlement while public actors garnish themselves with luxuriously endowed houses in well secured environment, with manicured grass lawn watered periodically, while majority of the people do not have good drinkable water supply.
What could be a sustainable probable solution to this state of affairs in a nation where 75% of our commonwealth is stolen by a few bourgeois?.
THIS IS A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION FOR ALL NIGERIANS.
