Leadership isn’t a One Man show, rather it is an awakening of minds deposited into persons in authority!
As an entrepreneur, (sentiments aside) I will be skeptical doing business in a state where Government Owned Enterprises were “Dead on Arrival”,
despite institutional backings/government paraphernalia.
If truly we reflect on our experiences, then we shouldn’t just collect them in a big pile without reviewing!!
Was it absence of monitoring, lack of commitment or settlement of boys syndrome, I just still can’t understand why so many “Still Birth” state projects!
Most administrations will have 100 days achievement without clearly set future milestones.
In the Business World, companies who experience such many still birth (Dead on Arrival projects) are termed LIABILITIES, the risk factor of another retrial must be shouted down by all well meaning and informed citizens. Ironically, it’s with the then same aides of yester years “The Engineer” wishes to return…..
Respectfully, pls I wish to be informed as per what the “value of such”, knowing fully well that good governance results must benefit from good policy formulation and implementation!
In his first wasteful missionary journey, the followings amongst others were the results:
Cassava/Ethanol Plant, still birth; Ikun dairy with its “golden cows”, still birth; solar powered street lights, still birth,….
We should ask what added values or activities any of the engineer’s team members have impacted on ekiti at large since engineer’s last coming that could possibly warrant another trial.
Our politics and governance must become cognitive and sensitive.
We should never forget in a hurry
“The schools feeding with eggs program”, which was not a bad idea, but conceived with self-centered motives, which became manifested in its implementation. Contracts to supply eggs were given to settle the boys, but there were no poultry in Ekiti to supply the eggs. Eggs were sourced from neighboring states of Osun and Oyo. Thus, increasing the IGR of those States at the detriment of our dear state. A government that’s pragmatic and not clueless would have done the needful in agriculture before embarking on such program. But because the illegal regime lacked sincerity of purpose, it was another wasteful venture.
Lets not forget how our patronage Treasury under Local Government Public Funds was superintended over under the guise of “AUTONOMY To LG” across the 16 Local Government authorities.
Wasting a peoples time may be the highest form of disrespect.
Abiodun Borisade, is a UK trained Science Lecturer in Further & Higher Education and a one-time Technical Assistant to Ekiti State Government on Job Creation and Employment matters
