This is my community by Maxwell Mbah

“Community life is the request of nature.

Its perfection lies in mutual benefits,”

says Mr. Termite.

Above quotation is apt because man cannot succeed without his community. In primeval times man lived with his fellow men and relatives to be able to make joint efforts, ward off external aggressions, embark on agriculture and feed his family. The victory men achieved in those days depended on their numerical strength. Defeat was easily attributed to lower population strength. Today technology has overtaken such assertions with man sending robots to Mars on space expedition to make more explorations.

Without men sitting down, brainstorming and experimenting with available material and human resources, the world would be making arithmetical rather than geometrical progression. Of particular importance is the progress to overcome hunger and ensure food security. The world’s human population, estimated between 6 to 6.5 billion appears to have overwhelmed the world’s food-production capacity. The world is fighting more wars than it is tilling the earth to produce more food. It is bad business that farmers are not allowed to get to their farms because of kidnapping, organ harvesting armed conflict, and a climate of fear created by robbery gangs patrolling the forests highways and city outskirts.
The Communitariat is getting to know more about the rural communities to get first hand information on what other challenges there are and how they can be tackled. Essentially, what challenges are your rural communities facing? The earth roads are not accessible, perhaps? Your people are drinking from disease-infested water ponds or harvesting rain water from trees and roof tops, for domestic uses? Women are often way-laid on their way to farms and raped without anybody raising eyebrows?
Electricity supply is made once in a blue moon? No access roads? The ones under construction have been abandoned because of insecurity? Women and children are being maltreated, strangled and thrown into pit-toilets? People erect mansions in the middle of the jungle and do their organ harvesting?
We are also aware of some civilized communities in all the corners of the earth. They have churches and markets, schools, town halls and clinics, dispensaries and hospitals. How remote are they from the near-by tarred roads, urban centres, markets etc? What is the nature of the rural economy? Farming? Fishing? Is there any police post? In what local govt? What are the names of your traditional ruler? His phone numbers, town? local government? What are the names of your festivals? When do they hold? What time of the year? How far is your town from Onitsha, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Aba, Kaduna, Jos, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Lagos, Abuja? Please arrange with us in advance. Give us the information and watch out for The Communitariat on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. contact us today:
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