By Mustopha Jamiu Olamilekan
Nigerian political leadership does not encourage the bright ones to contest in leadership race; else it soils one’s hard-earned reputation/character/personality.
However, it is sorrowful when such bright minds become cowards and most bend to being manipulated by the ruling egoists who prefer to use the brains better than them at their (the user) own advantage but at a disadvantage of the State. What we see in my country today has no space from what we had yesterday, if the truth must be told to one another.
In fairness, I don’t know of many progressive or prosperous nations where the leaders are the best among them in many spheres or scopes of knowledge about the economy and security of the State. If there exist some, then definitely they are only a few out of numerous. Fortunes and powers, and not know-how and brilliancy, have tipped many onto that pavement.
It’s from here that our sociocultural value has defeated our care about econometrics and security measures, and this is not because we started wrongly. The better brains are the ones operating behind the stage while the users are taking the glory being chorused by the audience. For efficiency, palms must therefore be rubbed.
The lack of proficiency and unprofessionalism of the beauty of any government (executive), within the cranny of her corridor, have its appointees to be confronted with, with burning questions and abrupt answers, as the characters therein have made our collective efforts as a nation unproductive in all endeavors.
The woe to our economy cannot spare the inefficient and ineffective skills of the characteristic frontiers of our common wealth handlers, and no wonder the supposedly harmonious arms of the government of the day do embark of governmental journeys that are ineffectual.
The governance and politics of this administration are unparalleled and are consequently conflicting with the interests the party men, denying the power custodians themselves the goodies of their sacrifices. Immorality my foot, but many rewards of this administration’s hard labors had slipped out of the hands of this administration under the nose of her watchmen, an incubation of which the administration of yesterday would never have allowed to see the light of the day.
The many unwarranted hegemonies in the administration have disallowed the best brains in this administration to exhibit their skills. The case of Zamfara and Bayelsa states are enough to call for placing all hands on deck.
I will be glad if the APC members and sympathizers do not consider this a lampoon on the party; with an encompassing sense of sincerity, there are many traits of absurdity in this administration. Oppositional distractions and disgruntled masses’ voices apart, there is a complete derailment for which we might not have a plausible excuse to tender.
The whole nation is mourning and our long-term perpetual security challenges have put many citizens and regions in a state of despondency. Recently, the USA banned Nigerians from entering America for a clearly stated reason of not availing enough security details of ourselves to them.
The current internal wrangling in the situation room of our security department has brought a concern to anyone in the system who cares for good governance. All of the four faces shown in the picture below are from Borno state (the resident state of the dreadful terrorist sect, Boko Haram), and three of them are serving under the present administration of our dear nation.
Part of the allegations being pushed by Monguno, the National Security Adviser, to Abba Kyari, the Chief of staff to the president, is that the latter has been frustrating Presidential orders in fighting insurgency.
I am not blaming these characters because they have failed to be the best brains that should have handled the jobs, neither am I blaming the individual who assigned the respective jobs to them. Rather, I am condemning the comfort and conveniency the lenient system under which they are serving has afforded them.
I remember one of the public pronouncements of the president immediately he assumed office in 2015, that the Chief of Army Staff relocate to Borno State with the headquarters of the institution.
This order was flouted, and the Army Chief serves still, despite the worsening case of our security challenges. If our service chiefs should be sacked, there may not be a better time than now. Thank you for reading!
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