"We live in an underdeveloped society with a lot poverty, misery and wants. What people want is for you to address those basic fundamental issues that affect their lives"- Senator Shehu Sani. Meanwhile Senator Shehu Sani has exposed the legislators abnormal wages in a society infested with poverty and infrastructural decay, poor public services, mass unemployment, etc.
The current political structure has failed to improve the welfare of ordinary people and will never address poverty issues in Nigeria. This is the first corruption and the root of massive corruption.
The only solution is the restructuring of the political structure, that's the first basic step. The power holders want it to stay that way to enable them continue their exploitation- business as usual.
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Due to poverty voters sell their voters card to politicians on election day, because that's the only way to benefit from the system. They're aware that it's only during elections that politicians have direct contact with them. Others are recruited as political thugs to cause election violence.
This situation needs urgent local and International attention. Economic opportunity is the first basic step for democracy to succeed. There is urgent need for a national dialogue to free-up the resources to enable states invest massively in key growth policies-public services and infrastructure for development- attract 'talent and investments' needed for growth. Read More: http://www.zurumnewsdigest.com/2017/04/decentralisation-not-next-election.html
A situation where the centre controls the entire resources, denying the states the capacity to invest in key growth policies- have sea ports, air ports, air hubs, global connectivity, control natural resources at their back yards to enable them exploit 'scale and specialisation' , diversify and engage in international trade, it becomes a huge problem.
Instead we are using the resources to pay security votes, build larger army and civil defence forces, buy arms to contain violence- the same violence created by the politicians, pay ransome to terrorists, pay for religious ceremonies, traditional rulers, unproductive civil service, even build the infrastructure in other countries, and invite foreigners to settle with us with our resources used to boost their cattle business, then bribe voters to vote for you instead of jobs, etc, thinking really needs to change.
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The liberty and equality of citizens is one sure way to help eradicate poverty. What causes poverty is destructive passions, deprivation, exclusion, exploitation, violent repression, etc, which is evident in today's Nigeria. It is morally wrong for the state to ''erect obstacles'' to the prosperity of the society.
I have just read a report on Independent newspaper : 'Katsina APC Spending Billions To Woo Decampees-NCP Chair', Independent March 8 2018. According to the report; "One begin to wonder why a government that is yet to execute any meaningful project is spending billions to woo PDP decampees". That's just the whole point.
The status-quo has nothing more to offer. Restructuring is the only solution to salvage the situation not by playing games. A political system that concentrates power -political and economic in the hands of few elites is pointless. "The rise out of poverty is the rise up in productivity, ordinary people become more productive"- Professor Sir Paul Collier, but the politicians prefer the brown envelope and the bullet.
Read Gov-El-Rufai's letter to President Buhari on his Governance Failure : "The danger of this current state of affairs is that we are inadvertently creating successive generations of poorer , barely educated, unskilled, hopeless and angry children of the poor side by side with increasingly richer, privately educated, skilled and optimistic children of the priviledged. It is a demographic and social time bomb waiting to explode as the poor and hopeless youths are easy recruits of insurgents, violent politicians and criminals".
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Uche Okeke is a Social Entrepreneur. He's the Founder of The LEAD Project Foundation.
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