SEC-S17 /W2| "What if you were the president of your country?"

INTRODUCTION

A president is the head of state and government of a country that is responsible for making important decision and ensuring the wellbeing of her citizens.

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If you were the president of your country, what would be your top three priorities and why?

If I were the president of my country, my top three priorities would be Education, Healthcare, and Provision of basic amenities.

1: Education: From elementary school through higher education and beyond, every citizen of every country should be able to have access to high-quality education. I would pay attention to Enhancing resources and training for teachers - Improving digital literacy and STEM education - Encouraging apprenticeships and career training - Promoting ongoing education and skill improvement

2: Medical Care and Well-Being: It is essential to guarantee universal, reasonably priced, and high-quality healthcare. My list of priorities would be as follows, I will Increase access to high-quality medical treatment, particularly for underserved populations - Funding public health programs, mental health services, and preventive care - I will also Promote a nutritious diet, regular exercise, and healthy lifestyles for my citizens which will be handled by selected individuals. Like every other countries organise spot day for her citizens. We need healthy populace.

3: Provision of basic amenities like good road, good hospital, good school etc.
It is known that lots of the rich men travel outside Nigeria to get treatment because of lack of proper health facilities. Let's look at the case of the young man that died some days ago known as pope, he died because there was not oxygen he was taken to. If I'm the opportunity to become the president, I would place much focus on providing good and quality medical equipment.

Let's look at the roads, it's kind of funny how people who can't travel by air are suffering. A journey that is supposed to be 4 hours is now 7 hours due to bad road. If I become the president, I would allocate the road contracts to each governors and deadline will come with it because I will want to guarantee the safety of my citizens.

Good schools is very important. I will provide good school facilities l, good and qualified teachers and make the school conducive for them. By prioritising these three factors in every society, you have solved 80% of its problems and needs.

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As president, what specific steps would you take to improve education and healthcare systems in your country?

As the president, the top steps to improve education and healthcare systems are subsidy and Privatisation.
By subsidising education and healthcare, it enables individuals or citizens to pay less, thereby encouraging them to use the facilities. Privatisation of healthcare and Educational systems also encourages investors to invest in the sectors, and because of competition from various investors, it helps in reducing cost and improves quality and standard.

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As a president, what challenges you could face in improving the overall condition of your country

Like the adage which says: "River cannot flow in a forest without falling tress ",so is the policy of government. No matter how genuine your intentions may be as a president, they are some people whom it may affect negatively, thereby making it a challenge to totally improve the overall condition of your country.

Another challenge is those at the herms of affairs, be it elected or appointed officials. In as much as you try, since you cannot be at everywhere simultaneously, you must appoint people to work for you and some in your cabinet must abuse powers and opportunities, either by negligence or through nepotism and corruption which will in turn , affect your plans of overall improvement of the condition of your country.

Religious and cultural factors also is another challenge that I could face that will limit me as a president from totally improve the condition of the country, because you have to respect the faith and belief of the people before making some critical policies that can effect change and improve overall condition of the population.

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Would you do something new to write the history of your country? What will it be?

I would do something new to rewrite the history of my country , change the whole narratives of how the country has been governed since 1960. The past leaders up till the current one have been following a status quo, which identify the country as a "national cake ".Every leaders that emerges, sees it as an opportunity to have their own share of the national treasury "cake" instead of using the opportunity to write thier names in gold.

They followed the steps of their predecessors, by looting and embezzling the tax payer's money without proffering a single solution to her numerous problems as a nation. I would use the opportunity to rewrite the history by focusing on utilising the vast human and natural resources of the nation for the benefit of all. Any corrupt leaders found guilty of corruption and related charges shall face capital punishment.

Education shall be given utmost attention and allocation, making healthcare and security a priority and channeling the country revenue towards manufacturing, Agriculture ,and enforcing complete consumption of locally made goods, thereby promote indigenous products and attracts investors which in turn, change the economy from depending on imported goods to expoorter of locally manufactured goods.

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In conclusion.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to reading from you too. I'm inviting @bossj23, @saintkelvin17 and @uzma4882 to participate in this contest.