A country so naturally endowed in landmarks, landscapes, land mass, and potentially blessed with people of diverse and rich cultures. We have globally celebrated icons in various fields of art, science and technology yet with deficiency in meaningful political self-governance.
Our political leadership is never lacking on the right political models but there is deliberate ignorance driven by greed and selfishness of the political leadership.
Corruption is so corrupt that even the institutions that should police the other civil
institutions are culpably corrupt and compromised by the endemically corrupt
society.
Civil or public Servants are ironically the Lords of the society, manufacturing, orchestrating, manipulating and systematically institutionalizing corruption in our
society.
We may individually have our experiences to share in any of our encounters either in seeking admission in schools or in legitimate public services ranging from job search or health care without entanglement and corrupt practices from your first contact to the top level of government officials.
Political offices are being vied for with huge resources either illegally or legitimately sourced but to be recouped by all means necessary when elected or appointed- in Nigeria politics, if you win or lose political office, just do everything to align with the system, you can be leveraged.
Honestly, addressing political governance in Nigeria is not the problem but the political class can only be intentional about it by cutting the cost of governance firstly, pruning itself of ungodly and irrational remuneration either as Executive or
Legislative.
Realistically, the country’s remuneration of the few elected elites have wicked imbalances with the salaries and wages of the working class and in a bid for the working public servants to square up with the same market realities, corrupt practices are institutionalized.
Same market with the political elites yet skewed remunerative system.
Good Government jobs, of choice offices tagged “white collar” are only for the
children of the political elites or Who-Know-Man connections.
A check on Government parastatals and Agencies can be verified.
The cost of Executive governance must be pruned. Act of making legislative laws have become so hyper expensive, than our Holy Books that are being used for oath of offices respectively.
Judiciary are no longer judicious in the dispensation of justice but most often the highest bidder wins in our various levels of our courts.
Omuya Yusuf, a
Public Affairs Analyst can be reached on:
oohinoyi@yahoo.com
