The present administration in Nigeria intends to anchor its policies on transparency, integrity and honesty.
For several years successive administrations in the country have failed to incorporate the aforementioned in national the life.
Rather, activities and actions have been channeled towards stagnancy, retardation and underdevelopment.
At the inauguration boards and parastatals in Oyo state, on 24 June,
1999, the then Governor of Oyo state, Alhaji Lam Adesina, of blessed
memory, stated : ”We took our time in ensuring that men and women of
integrity and probity are chosen among innumerably qualified men and
women. We don’t like to be proved wrong and this is why we implore you
to rise up to the challenge and improve the lot in your work place.
”We are very serious when we promised our people that probity and
public accountability will be our watch word, most of the areas, you
have been posted to, are afflicted and already grounded by financial
impropriety and squandermania. We, as an administration have made
covenant, with our people and we shall not renege on it”, Alhaji Adesina
concluded.
Indeed, Nigerians are still wondering, if the present crop of
political appointees at both the Federal and State levels would make
probity and public accountability their watch word, considering the rot
in the system. Interestingly, the appointees are yet to publicly declare
their assets.
In 2009, the Day Star Christian Centre organized a conference,
”Excellence in Leadership”. In attendance, was the then Governor of
Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola, who is now the Minister of Power, Works
and Housing. Fashola had emphasized the need for Nigerians to embrace
the basic values of good conduct.
”By sowing for an early crop, the capacity to ‘lead’ particularly in
our youths, we can guarantee this nation, a harvest of exemplary leaders
that our people so dearly expect and indeed deserve”.
Without doubt, the country is in dire need of principled and visionary
leaders. However, the absence of good leadership qualities has for long
served as a major impediment towards achieving developmental goals.
But the existence of principled and visionary leaders, seems to be a
mirage, when confronted with the fact that most power brokers end up
managing wayward children. In the political scene, the Father continues
to contend with issues of governance, while the Mother runs around to
boost the fortunes of her pet project. At the end of it all, the
children grow up without parental care, with their behaviour, similar to
that of their Nannies and Teachers. The ”World is yours” becomes their
creed, while the state and its resources are at their beck and call.
Indeed, transparency, integrity and honesty is not yet within reachable
distance.
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