As I was saying on this sixth anniversary of the Buhari administration, our leaders at all levels have a responsibility to swallow their pride and vanity and focus intentionally on robust investment in education quality, lest we will continue to celebrate excuses and continue to read from Walter Rodney’s lamentation book, “How The West Underdeveloped Africa” every year. There should be no room for most of the excuses we heap on our colonial masters and indeed the ‘militricians’.
As I was saying too, our leaders at all levels should seek knowledge about dynamic capabilities, efficiency and execution, the discipline of getting things done – instead of fighting and replying critics. And that should begin with the quality of presidential and gubernatorial bureaucracies. This is one area where our leaders have failed us in the last 22 years of barren democracy. They don’t listen to those who want them to succeed.
We have seen for six years what cabinet members and chief executive officers of various agencies have been doing. Consequences of official responsibilities are what we have seen in the state of the nation today when non-state actors have become more efficient than state actors who control instruments of violence. Competence isn’t a concept that should be debated. It is transparent. People will feel it.
Most democracies look up to the hills of their parliaments in times of crises. The United States’ Congress just delivered their country from an incipient and embarrassing tyranny. Nigeria’s parliament is not a strong and reliable institution. The leaders, the presiding officers of Nigeria’s National Assembly can’t organise debate beyond lamentation and constant summons of security and service chiefs they can’t even interrogate well.
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