{"id":8621,"date":"2022-03-20T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2022-03-19T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:11:00","slug":"akahland-in-the-21st-century-identifying-a-sustainable-development-strategy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/akahland-in-the-21st-century-identifying-a-sustainable-development-strategy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Akahland in the 21st Century: Identifying a Sustainable Development Strategy (3)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='epvc-post-count'><span class='epvc-eye'><\/span>  <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 261<\/span><span class='epvc-label'> Views<\/span><\/div><p>\u2022 What must we do to make our people understand that autonomous allows people to operate independently but also creates a mindset of being interdependent to one another?<br \/>\n\u2022 Can we learn from the trends in other communities, other races?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there things we have lost\/gained since the creations?<br \/>\n\u2022 To what extent?<br \/>\n\u2022 Can we collectively put up more assets for the betterment of all in our generation?<br \/>\n\u2022 How can we achieve that in the face of so much talked about division?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there roles AVA are playing and can play in order to achieve this dream?<br \/>\n\u2022 What responsibility does each of us have in this new wind of change?<br \/>\n\u2022 How do we look forward to a better tomorrow?<br \/>\n\u2022 What are the necessary things we should do going forward to achieve our aspirations?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there hopes of our ever working together again as a people?<br \/>\n\u2022 What are the challenges of our people living abroad?<br \/>\n\u2022 Short term, medium term and long term?<br \/>\n\u2022 How do we make our people back home understand and appreciate these challenges?<br \/>\n\u2022 How do we balance their expectations with realities on ground?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are our people in diaspora concerned of happenings at home?<br \/>\n\u2022 To what extent?<br \/>\n\u2022 Why? How do we get them interested if they are not?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are they hoping at a certain time of their sojourn to come back and live at home, Nigeria?<br \/>\n\u2022 How do they arouse the interest of their children born and raised abroad to develop interest at home?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there roles home people have to play in order to achieve this dream?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there ways those in diaspora can better the infrastructures at home?<br \/>\n\u2022 What kind of infrastructures are we talking about?<br \/>\n\u2022 Can we take trends from other communities in diaspora?<br \/>\n\u2022 Is it possible for all our people in diaspora to have a common body to collectively achieve these aspirations?<br \/>\n\u2022 AVA: Who are they?<br \/>\n\u2022 What have they been able to achieve since inception?<br \/>\n\u2022 Why the so much concentration on scholarship and educational publications such as the Akah Vanguard Digest?<br \/>\n\u2022 What are the challenges?<br \/>\n\u2022 What is the state of the initiatives now?<br \/>\n\u2022 How many people have benefitted from the scholarships?<br \/>\n\u2022 From which communities\/ villages?<br \/>\n\u2022 Is it properly managed? If yes, are there rooms for further improvements?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there fresh problems arising since the creation of autonomous communities?<br \/>\n\u2022 Isn`t it ideal for our well meaning Akah sons and daughters to immortalise their names by investing in AVA`s life-changing schemes and or sponsoring the production of Akah Vanguard digest?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there AVA members\/non members who have invested heavily in these initiatives?<br \/>\n\u2022 Who are they?<br \/>\n\u2022 What were the dreams of our forefathers when they built the community hospital?<br \/>\n\u2022 Short term, medium term and long term?<br \/>\n\u2022 What is the state of the community hospital now?<br \/>\n\u2022 Is it properly managed? If not, why?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there fresh problems arising since the creation of the autonomous communities?<br \/>\n\u2022 Can the community hospital ever be put to its optimal working condition again?<br \/>\n\u2022 How?<br \/>\n\u2022 Is sharing the funds realized in the hospital among the autonomous communities more important than putting them into workable state in order to serve its purpose for our people?<br \/>\n\u2022 What are the best options open to us to realize the people`s aspiration of seeing the hospital work again?<br \/>\n\u2022 How do we realise those options?<br \/>\n\u2022 What kind of problems are we likely to face?<br \/>\n\u2022 How do we mitigate them? To what extent?<br \/>\n\u2022 What roles are expected of our leaders, traditional and community in supporting our vision for the hospital?<br \/>\n\u2022 Are there roles AVA are playing and can play in order to achieve this dream?<br \/>\n\u2022 What are the necessary things we should do going forward to achieve our aspirations?<br \/>\n\u2022 Summary, workable recommendations etc, etc.<br \/>\nSummary &amp; Conclusions:<br \/>\nIs this onerous responsibility of providing collective road map for our people going to be easy? No it will not. Will it even be easy to sell the vision coming out of this convention to our people? No it won`t. Is it going to be easy to raise the necessary funds needed to give life to and execute our visions? No, it won`t. But are we going to succeed if we become more hungrier for its success? Yes, we will.<br \/>\nSo I charge you my people to rise up and let`s begin the journey. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, (1910), \u201cit is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.\u201d<br \/>\nAs you are already aware, the greatest threat to the survival of the average person, average community, a people, a race, etc is the future. But the challenge for me and you lie on our ability to know where to go and what to do today to make tomorrow better. However, this convention has provided us the opportunity to tell ourselves the truth. It is obvious that no number of armies can stop an idea whose time has come. Let`s therefore refuse to compromise with the present situation of things at home. Let`s change our mindset! Let`s have a little paradigm shift! And behold, a great future awaits all of us. Yes, it does!<br \/>\nI wish us fruitful deliberations.<br \/>\nConcluded.<br \/>\nDr Austin Agbahiwe holds a PhD in finance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>261 Views\u2022 What must we do to make our people understand that autonomous allows people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[43],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Akahland in the 21st Century: Identifying a Sustainable Development Strategy (3). -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/akahland-in-the-21st-century-identifying-a-sustainable-development-strategy-3\/\" \/>\n<meta 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