so
teresa soccer is here we want motive in
mind
to set things rolling just like with a
locomotive
do you hear these walls coming
storytelling today to
drive my points across now
something phenomenal happened during my
practice days
i was on call on a christmas day
and a particular patient was brought in
from
worry how many of you no worry in delta
state
i was the only house officer on call on
that day
and and it was a christmas day like i
mentioned before so you can imagine i
was thinking about
rice and the chicken i i was going to
miss
so unfortunately for
the institution i was working in we did
not have
a functional ventilator in the entire
hospital
you know what a ventilator is it helps
to sustain respiration
when a patient cannot do it on his own
we had an intensive care unit that
didn't have a single functional
ventilator now what used to happen
was that house officers will be made
to amble back patients manually
for five to eight hours in turn so we're
taking turns to do that
and we're doing it in silence we didn't
want the entire world to know
now in the emergency unit in the
emergency section
we had an aesthetic machine that could
simulate or could you could you could
in a way make it act like a ventilator
for a very short period of time
so when this patient was brought in i
knew we didn't have events little
so i quickly called my superior because
he had fallen from a height he had
fractured one of his
one of the vegetable bones you know i
don't want to go into the technical
details
and he couldn't breathe on his own so we
had to put him on the vent a little
so i called my superior they put him on
their aesthetic machine because it was
shell you know shell the oil giant shell
brought him from worry
and they had this fancy techie
ventilator
that the guy was on you know for the
trip so he had to take the ventilator
back so we
put the guy on on the anaesthetic
machine
and sure left so he was on that machine
for a couple of hours
trans transferred to icu and i had to
leave
to go to icu to amble back him for eight
hours
in other words for eight hours i was
just doing this
all right now three days later there was
a clinical review
and during the clinical review i heard
that patient had died
now when i heard because i knew his name
because i was with him for it i was
straight
so i i asked myself this question
could it be possible that somebody
who was amber bagging for probably five
to eight hours
slipped off
now he slept off couldn't go back
further
and the patient died so right there in
the clinical
meeting because as a medical student i
had an entrepreneurial mindset i knew i
wasn't going to practice medicine
how's job was it for me my future was
already being planned and i was moving
in that direction
so i didn't owe anybody any
responsibilities i wasn't going to beg
anybody
for residency in the hospital so i had
to speak out
so i put up my hand and i said something
and i was like
my distinguished consultants my
distinguished senior registrars and
registers
i would like to say that this is
disgraceful and instantly
all heads turned to the back because
we're sitting at the back of the house
officer house officer sat at the back so
who is this bloody house officer
who has the guts to tell us that what we
are doing is wrong
so they looked at me and i talked with
all confidence that look
the time has come for us to think
innovatively if the government is not
providing ventilators for us
we have to think innovatively about how
we can
create solutions to this problem
patients can't keep dying
right here and i was told to shut up
and sit down but i made my point
now
would you say nigeria is a chaotic
nation
yes we will all right
how does the world see us how do you
think the world sees us
i'll tell you how they see us with
passionate disrespect
this was in luxembourg i'm the one
sitting at the
far corner the only black man in that
place it's a global business meeting in
in luxembourg was hosted by the
government of luxembourg
and i was one of those invited to speak
but something happened the night before
this happened in fact i didn't want to
speak anymore because of the treatment i
got on the streets of luxembourg
i got into my hotel i wanted to take a
walk that night
i got in the evening i'm going to take a
walk to just see the city center
and i got to a bus station because i was
tired i needed to go back to my hotel i
met an american lady
who was going to my hotel so she was
looking for directions
so while we got talking she asked me
i asked her where she's from she said
she's from the united states
she asked me where i'm from and that was
the mistake i said i'm from nigeria
i have a loud voice so immediately i
said i was from nigeria
there was a lady standing in front of me
who immediately turned around
and screamed out nigerians are criminals
you guys are terrible and i was like
what is going on
now i looked around i was the only black
man in the
whole bus station i looked around
further
i was the only black man in the whole
block
now there's a white lady screaming
criminal thief
nobody's gonna ask what exactly is she
talking about
he's a criminal he's a thief i probably
support somebody from somewhere will
call
the cops of me or pull out a gun so i
assessed the situation thoroughly
luckily for me
my passport my invitation letter signed
by the grand duchy of luxembourg was in
my pocket
so i pulled it i i gave the signal that
i want to pull out somebody think i want
to pull out a gun
i would have pulled out something from
my pocket and i pulled it out
and showed her the letter and she looked
at it
and she calmed down and then i was in
calm
and i said you don't call everybody you
seen bus stations thieves and criminals
i turned it up on her because i was
really upset and when i got back to my
hotel for the first time i felt black
this is a hotel i came in with all
confidence i didn't care who was there
but for the first time
i assessed the hotel and there was this
glass um
transparent whatever you know in front
of the hotel and you could see everybody
inside and i discovered that there was
no black person
sitting there it took me like 10 minutes
to get myself together i got in
i didn't prepare for this summit anymore
went to my room shut down my laptop
slept to the next morning went straight
to the chairman of the event and told
him that i wasn't going to participate i
wasn't feeling it
and he sat down sat me down we talked
about it and that was it i
ended up participating in the event and
all that but the truth of the matter is
we're viewed by a lot of people around
the globe with passionate disrespect
how many of us saw what happened in
south africa just a few weeks ago a few
months ago it was terrible it's the way
we are seen
how many of us have heard about the
ghanaians deporting nigerians and
closing nigerian businesses
it's the way we are seen it's the way we
have packaged our brand
this has to change now
just a few days ago my driver was taking
me for a meeting
it was just after the south african
riots
and i said i had to do something we
packed somewhere
i think it was a day after and my driver
told me um
doctor please tell you something i was
like what he was like yesterday that was
the day of the riots he was
coming to um
was passing through the airport road you
know there's a shop right around along
that road
he was passing through there and he said
people young guys young energetic guys
wanted to stop the car and get him out
and probably take the car or maim him
and for the first time while he was
saying that i realized something
and as i'm looking at everybody here
you're all looking all good
oh look your skin is looking fresh and
probably you came with a fantastic car
here
let me tell you something if there is
another trigger
that angers the people understand this
those boys on the streets cannot have
access to gymovia
jimovia has security around him
they won't go there they can't have
access to tony alumilum
they can't have access to dangote they
don't have access to any governor
who they think really steals money or or
has raped them
you know of of the resources and the
opportunities they have
or they should have had do you know who
they would come after
they know where your kids are they know
where this school
they know the cars you write and like
and after he said that it
dawned on me thoroughly that look
our mentality as a group of people
who by one way or the other we have
certain privileges attached to our name
but we have worked for these privileges
we didn't steal money
we're not part of those who looted the
the resources of this country but the
truth of the matter is when it when push
comes to serve
those boys will not be asking those
questions they will pull you out of a
prado jeep and they will slice your
truth
so we have to do something now
and i mean now now
most of us our parents told us i mean
your parents told you that when you
you know you go to school you know you
you read a good course
there's a job waiting for you everything
will be
nice and good right stand out
now there are three levels as you can
see on this on this slide
all right natural environments macro
economic competitiveness and
microeconomic competitiveness
now a country like nigeria is still
competing at the natural environments
level
all right in other words
we sign contracts with people that would
take the earth and the ground and sell
it and make money
all right we say when we dive into
agriculture
all we are thinking about is
way back in 2001 in the 90s he talked
about
the transition from the old model to the
new model
and that is where your role now comes in
in the old model
it was like government drives economic
development through policy decisions and
incentives
it was all about government it was all
what all about what government could do
that is why your parents told you that
when you graduate government will
provide a job for you
government will do this this road is bad
don't worry my son very soon the
government will come and do it
people are being people are losing jobs
don't worry the government will provide
jobs that's what we heard
but the new model which has become more
evident even today
is that economic development is a
collaborative process
involving government at multiple levels
companies
teaching and research institutions
private sector organizations
and outcome-driven nation builders i
added that
this is professor michael porter's slide
is not my style prof if you see this
slide on
youtube i gave you credit all right now
i added
this is mine outcome driven nation
builders
you know um yeah and i would explain
what that means who are outcome build
outcome driven nation builders they are
passionate
organized social innovators aggregated
around the common goal
now i'll tell you the story about a
party i went to
i was from roundup a friend of mine
whose father is a billionaire
i went to have a meeting with him and he
just told me his birthday was the next
day
he invited me so i said okay i'll come
that day i had a meeting so i knew i i
could just spend like
10 minutes in that place and get out so
my driver took me to his estate
i got in there i just told my driver
keep the engine running i'm not i'm not
spending too much time i just want to
show my face and get out
so when i got in just a few friends
a few friends of hers they were having a
conversation eating and all that
you know very light music and the
conversation was going on
now the conversation was about the state
of nigeria
okay so when i when i got in i i
listened to the conversation a bit
i was like where's this guy let him see
my face so i he saw me
where the co where the chit chat but he
insisted i sat down you know had
something to eat
and that was going on so i listened more
to the conversation
and they were talking about the power
problem about in nigeria and it was
affecting their businesses
they were big boys in that room so they
were talking about the power problem how
it affected their businesses
how it's affecting their bottom lines
and all that their productivity and all
that
i i wasn't saying a word i didn't
contribute at all so somebody noticed i
wasn't saying something
and said ah excuse me why not say
anything
are you a worry boy and i was like
what why would you say that it's like
because you're not saying anything we're
talking about the power problem and
you've never said a word
and i kept quiet so my guest
who was the one who pushed my buttons
was like he noticed exactly the same
thing
the day i came to his house where he
talked about
a national problem and i didn't say
anything
i knew there wasn't we had a partnership
with daily trust to do the third edition
i refused to do it because i'd had
enough
it was just i i don't build talk shops i
had heard enough
now strategy two what's the next thing
in line it had to be alternative power
generation
that's the only way nigeria can leapfrog
so do you know what i did
i thought about this for for for months
after my last event thought about it
i drew i'm not an engineer i drew
a setup in my phone i use a note in
a samsung galaxy note i was asked myself
can
can electricity be generated from water
and i got into youtube i found a young
man called the maker nelson have you
heard his name
i found a young man called nika nelson
found him on facebook sent him a message
that i wanted to meet with him because i
was having a meeting with the minister
of state
for trade and investment at the time the
foreign minister just before
before this current one i wanted to take
a group of young
innovators and expose them to the
government because they were within my
circle of influence
i could do something about it so i
called the minister that look i am
bringing certain people
and i'm bringing the media i want to
expose the innovation so i call them
michael nelson and another guy who built
a drone
now this is um a timeline between 150 bc
and 1999.
now imagine you were stranded on an
island in 150 bc and you needed
to let people understand that you were
there so they could come and save you
during at 150 bc what's the
only method you could deploy to get
noticed what
fire and smoke good now around
1670 the megaphone was you know the
innovation called the megaphone was
created
so if you are stranded on that island
you won't be thinking about
smoke anymore what would you be thinking
about the megaphone
around 1940 to 1999
united states having something the
transformation process now instead
going towards you know what we now have
you know mobile communication
technologies and all that
but the truth of the matter is this
the method has changed over the years
but has the need the outcome changed
no the outcome that is sought
by anyone in that island is to
communicate in a dangerous situation
brands always change but the outcome
always remains the same
now we deploy setting brands just like
those
just like those other brands was a slide
a problem statement has an object of
control which is the confirmed receipt
can you imagine if facebook had one
global strategy
towards healthcare can you imagine the
level of impact
facebook has a strategy to bring to
connect people
it doesn't have a strategy for social
impact
are we together now imagine if facebook
of
two billion people decided that going
forward
the two billion people on our network
will just be transforming hospitals
across the globe
from third class to world class we'll
mobilize resources mobilize people
and every week the entire two billion
people on facebook
will be targeting the transformation of
hospitals across the world
can you imagine the level of impact
that's what we're trying to create
and i and i and i and i i i will enjoin
you
to start thinking differently about this
nation because when push comes to shove
when the next south african experience
happens god forbid
nobody will find tony ulumelu nobody
will find him over here
they will find you in your prado jibs
your nice houses they know where your
children school they know where you eat
they know your movement
they drive you there you may gods they
will find you
thank you