You see me, I wouldn’t say I like shouting just for the fun of it. I like making noise and seeking a solution. I do not believe in railing at the government over everything. Government is clearly clueless and needs help. In fact, who is the government? Is it not us? When baba called us lazy, we all were shouting, but when things like this keep happening, we go on social media and shout and shout. After a few days, we will now be ogling at Bobrisky’s fake breasts, forgetting Peju, Erelu and all other Nigerians that have lost their lives. Are we not lazy?
Well, I have decided to push for a citizens’ trust fund as a middle-of-the-road and immediate engagement of the situation. The idea is got from the N1k miracle group, of which I am a junior founder and strong member. As expounded by the main founder and driver, the vision of the group is to get just N1,000 from people and help pay medical bills for Nigerian patients. Mrs Chile Udemgba has grown this group from just the initial two of us to over 800 people. Donations have moved from the first N270,000 to over N2 million monthly. With these funds, she pays bills and buys drugs for patients she does not know. This is a young Nigerian lady doing things.
So, I want to borrow the idea and push for one million Nigerians to donate N1,000 monthly into a trust fund that corporate trustee firms would manage. The funds will be used to strengthen government public medical facilities in welfare, training, equipment, insurance and facility. This would be a third-leg approach that will impact the community and save lives.
If you speak with medical practitioners, you will hear stories of woe. In fact, I hear that a well-trained doctor goes home with about N200,000 monthly, if not less. This fund will augment this salary and give him a better reason to serve. It will also give out scholarships and push for the quick inflow of newly-trained doctors from the medical schools. This may sound utopian, but what is life if you don’t dream and push.
Chile dreamt it, and today in less than two years, she has delivered over N40 million into that sector, just from N1,000. The rest of us, let’s be shouting – eya, it is well, it is God’s work, it is his time. You see say we are our own problems. Na wa.
