President Buhari.
President Buhari needs to take on another role: We need to be assured of his capacity for service delivery.
Anytime the president catches ‘a bad guy’, he is applauded by a section of the masses, the press, and his die-hard followers leave us drenched in saliva as they brag about town. But one thing these blind followers fail to understand is that approval of this kind generates powerful incentives to do more of the same. His party continues to dwell in this ‘compliance monitoring’, to the point that it has more people ‘watching and doing nothing.’
I am not about to deny the value of catching the bad guys; although I have never been a president, I don’t even know if I’d do a good job of it. But the mission of a president also should include ‘capacity-building.’ Capacity building across all sections of government in the country — either by creating more jobs, expansion of the economy to attract investors, or building of infrastructures – which requires more taxpayers money.
It appears that the president is being encouraged to stick to catching bad guys and discouraged from providing basic amenities for the people.
What the president has failed to understand is that, catching bad guys and provision of basic amenities should be intertwined. The president should also put into consideration is that you don’t chase after bad guys and subject the rest of the citizens to unspeakable hardship with his unnecessary austerity measures.
President Buhari must discard his 1983 mentality and learn what modern governance is about. His hardened posture and stance on simple issues will only serve to destroy the country. In this era of advance technology, Nigeria will not evolve with the rest of the world by recycling the same old and spent politicians.
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Source:: The NET
