Nigeria and Values-Stationed Guidance

Today, it's no longer newspaper in the homeland to see the mass media of communication inundated together with scandalous as well as aggravating stories of brash inflation of agreement sums, disappearing act of artificial agreementors after gathering mobilisation disposable resources, or oftentimes all of the agreement sum; blind looting of treasuries with impunity, brigandage, beliefs of use without thought, outright lack of brilliance on the part the guardianship, endless dashed hopes, and lack of artistry in statecraft, as well as instance of shoddy cum white elephant projects with no concrete relevance to the aspirations of the populace.

As if the improbably invasive light-fingered procedure being adopted by many of the leaders at varied levels of political practice is not just enough, a new measure of course, has been introduced to act in concert the conspiratorial pillaging of the nation's common funds. It's simply overwhelming these days, as Nigerians helplessly, go on to hear or get about horrifying tales of financial malfeasance, under different guises, as well as obvious robberies of the treasury being reported in the media.

This is seemingly being committed by both appointed and elected guardianship in active connivance together with the ostensibly incapable civil servants; shameless and forceful accumulation of toll from transporters as well as/ or motorists by men and officers of the Nigeria Police on the nation's roads; absolute departure of statutory allocations originally budgeted for developmental projects as well as programmes, into personal accounts for private use by corrupt leaders.

Although theirs is not an appropriate system, an ex- US Ambassador to Nigeria at the time late Gen. Sani Abacha rule, Mr. Walter Carrington, at an open discussion in Lagos, constructed a correlative analysis of the sustained purposeless presidency afflicting Nigeria together with what obtains in the United States (US) in connection together with values-based guardianship. Carrington, particularly, mentioned the entrepreneurial strides the US has been recounting over time to the range that "racism and nepotism" were quick disappearing in America, whereby paving way for an African-American (clearly referring to Barack Obama) to win the support of the majority of the Americans to take possession The White House, the official seat of US Management in Washington, D.C.

According to him, instead of making distinctive progress, the loss of a value system in Nigeria has created corruption, idea of "indigeneship", vandalism as well as bureaucratic thuggery to remain prominent in the country's body politic.

It's not impetuous to discern why some do wonder aloud if responsibility, accountability as well as sense of straightforwardness could ever be reestablished in the governmental dictionary of the modern crop of leaders. maybe, such individuals as well as groups who wildly, desire meaningful change in the socio-governmental life of the community think so against the backdrop of apparent purposeful, focused guardianship 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, as well as others who sacrificed a lot to confirm the well-being of the masses.

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