"In search of a demand culture"
Introduction
The current dynamics of our country has caused many Nigerians to ask questions of ourselves and each other. The narration and lamentation of our woes has become national pass-time both in news and social media.
Nigerians watch as the State and the nation continue to struggle with external challenges and internal obstacles. We wallow in primitive deceit whilst other nations make progress.
System Failure has resulted in our glaring failures in the provision and administration of energy, fuels, public transport, healthcare, education, and other facets of service delivery. Mindless system failure has caused desperation in the midst of abundance.
The overall effect of both our leadership and history is unfolding before those who caused and or superintended it.
And though change is on everyone’s mind, the question remains – what kind of change and for who.
How do we move the country into productivity and wealth-creation whilst catering for our numerous and diverse populations, mostly youth and children?
How do we forge a complete nation out of our country?
We cannot continue to blame, complain or excuse. nor can we afford to continue failing ourselves by ourselves. We are Nigerians and this is the only Nigeria. She was great. She can be great. And she will be great again.
It is possible for us to provide and deliver services for ourselves. It is possible for us to provide the infrastructure we deserve. It is possible for us to address our needs and achieve our aspirations. We can cater for our familes and communities.
We can arrive at the 21st Century.
But we must work together, with a plan.
Who we are?
We must not have a name, sponsors, leaders, mission, vision, founding members, an office and objectives.
Every Nigerian is a sponsor, Leader and member. We face the same issues, problems, and challenges.
Our mission is to overcome our collective challenges with a plan.
Our vision is to implement our plan for the benefit of every Nigerian.
The name GATE 774 is inspired the number of Local Governments in Nigeria. Moreso, for national and or any development to occur, it must be local and universal.
A new thinking, everywhere.
What we are
We are an association of Nigerians who share the same beliefs.
1. We believe that we have all it takes to propel Nigeria in Nigeria.
2. We believe that system failure, inadequate energy supply, and incompetenc are at the roots of our national challenges
3. We believe in logical, empirical and data driven digital governance.
4. We believe in democracy, universal participation, inclusive governance and the power of one vote.
5. We believe that we can achieve our common goals by coming together under one understanding.
6. We believe we can.
The Thinking
Affirmation and strengthening of Constituted Authority and the Rule of Law through universal participation and universality of a dependable social infrastructure nationwide.
Transplanting this universality into the economic, through internal partnerships and structures, inclusive of both formal and informal sectors, that ensure the integration of local Capital and local Labour for the deployment of infrastructure and the production of goods and services.
And enable the prerequisite supportive standards and content in the polity to entrench sustainable value and “wealth creation”.
So that we, the people of Nigeria can move Nigeria forward, this time collectively, equitably and sustainably.
The Plan
In such a thinking, there must be an overview within which, each of the myriad of components that constitute the State, Government and governance, are envisaged and articulated.
To drive this process we have developed tools for infrastructure deployment and created a Universal Operating System (UOS) called THE GATE® for the provision and delivery of social services . A home grown plan, embracing global standards, accompanied by a comprehensive articulation of governance.
The primary focus of this website is to educate and ensure common grounds for all Nigeria in understanding the basics of our Social Contract: the need and requirements of a new Nigeria.
Seeking not only to inform, the site also enable the support and involvement of Nigerians to achieve this possibility: a paradigm shift.
“We should not be bent on the one-solution approach. Africa is not a one-solution continent. We are not a one-issue continent”.
Chinua Achebe
SITE GUIDE
The site serves to lay foundations for universal participation, by defining basic principles of the State, the Government, the Citizen and Governance. Based on these definitions we attempt to promote basic and “Common Grounds” in our Solution Conversations.
All common grounds have been compressed into a Charter with which we invite every Nigerian to Join Us and Participate. All comments and contributions are welcome in the continued structuring of this Charter which shall promote the standards we expect, the policies we adopt and the systems we shall use to achieve them.
We hope that each and every one of us will join this outing and bring to it the best of us, and Nigeria.