Today, it's no more news in the land to see the
magnitude media of briefing inundated with wrongful as well as burdensome
stories of galloping inflation of contract sums, disappearing act of artificial
agreementors after collecting mobilisation capital, or repeatedly all of the
contract sum; blind thefts of treasuries with impunity, brigas well asage,
culture of disuse, outright lack of brains on the part the presidentship,
endless dashed hopes, and lack of cleverness in statecraft, as well as sample of
abject cum white elephant projects with no ethereal relevance to the aspirations
of the public.
As if the obscurely invasive light-fingered procedure
being adopted by thousands of the leaders at mixed levels of governance is not
enough, a new measure of course, has been brought in from another place to act
in concert the conspiratorial pillaging of the nation's common assets. It's
simply crushing these days, as Nigerians helplessly, continue to hear or get
about horrifying tales of financial malfeasance, under various guises, and
obvious robberies of the treasury being reported in the media.This is purportedly being committed by both appointed as well as elected guidance in active connivance together with the ostensibly inefficient civil servants; shameless as well as forceful accumulation of toll from transporters as well as/ or motorists by men as well as officers of the Nigeria Lawman on the nation's roads; absolute departure of statutory allocations originally budgeted for advancingal projects and programmes, into exclusive accounts for private use by corrupt leaders.
Although theirs is not an appropriate system, a former US Ambassador to Nigeria at the same time as late Gen. Sani Abacha rule, Mr. Walter Carrington, at an open discussion in Lagos, built a comparative analysis of the sustained purposeless presidency afflicting Nigeria with what obtains in the United States (US) in connection with benefits-based prime-ministership. Carrington, clearly, mentioned the entrepreneurial strides the US has been recounting over time to the extent that "racism as well as nepotism" were fast disappearing in America, whereby paving direction for an African-American (clearly referring to Barack Obama) to obtain the support of the majority of the Americans to conquer The White House, the someone seat of US Administration in Washington, D.C.
According to him, instead of making apparent progress, the loss of a financial worth system in Nigeria has constructed corruption, image of "indigeneship", vandalism as well as political thuggery to remain prominent in the land's body politic.
It's not impetuous to discern why remarkable do wonder aloud if responsibility, accountability as well as sense of sincerity could ever be revived in the political dictionary of the old-fashioned crop of leaders. blind guess, such individuals and groups who agitatedly, desire meaningful change in the socio-constitutional life of the homeland think so against the backdrop of apparent purposeful, focused guidance that characterised the era of Nigeria's founding fathers as well as elder statesmen as late Ahmadu Bello (Sardauna of Sokoto), Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Anthony Enahoro, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Murtala Muhammed, Osita Osadebey, and others who sacrificed a lot to confirm the well-being of the masses.
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