Thriving poverty keeps our leaders in power
I met an older politician at the airport and he immediately noticed how emotional I was talking about ending poverty in the North. I particularly mentioned three Governors that can rally their counterparts to champion this cause. These are Nasir El Rufai in the North Wesr, Bello Mutawalle in in the West and Prof Zulum in the North East.
Now this older politician ( I don't want to mention his name) cornered me into agreeing that private initiatives must be involved. And some how, he brought up Atiku Abubakar's name into the conversion.
This is why I am writing this; Because of the salient points (salient because Atiku himself was not coherent enough about his micro plans for ending poverty in the North) he raised indicating that Waziri's fight with the APC and President Buhari was his (Atiku's) insistence on building the economy of the North East.
In clear contents, the North west have hijacked governance, politics and economy of the North. Waziri Adamawa was the nearest hope we had in restoring power to the North East. For me, this is a new one. I have never associated Atiku with this noble effort. Have you?
It did not make sense to me then. Even now that I have slept over it, it is still illogical, inconsistent and wholly asinine. The older politician has failed to explain to me why the Wazirin Adamawa allegedly accepted a stream of heinous conditions given to him by Obasanjo and the Igbo's before they endorsed him for President? Some of those conditions were the immediate suspension of Mambila hydro power station project, stop all oil exploration in the North, impose a ban on national cattle range, renew subsidy regimes and drop all corruption charges against their friends. This Atiku story would be reserved for another day.
There is need to have a coordinated collaboration, one that is well structured, to end poverty in the North. The activities of the three Governors i mentioned earlier have caught the attention of all and sundry. It is time that they all closed ranks and put out a Marshall plan-like efforts in dousing the 'talauci' situations of our people.
Lack of information is one gaping hole in the way we have administered our people. I could remember when the N-SIP program started, I asked one of the Adamawa members of the National Assembly about it, he told me that he doesn't know anything of such. Small benefits coming out from government does not have the desired trickle down effect.
It is only the very poor indulges in 'almajiri' practices. It ûvuis only the children of the poor are stolen and taken away for slavery. Why? They are allowed to roam freely for hawking, almajiranci and sometimes for absolute no reason but because they have nothing to do than simply roam about.
It is evident that there's a lot of disruptive innovations in the world. In tech, politics and economy. The one thing we must embrace is the way we practice our culture and religion. We have no excuse! KSA, UAE and Iran readily comes to mind in changing such perspectives.
Some of the focus areas must consider
1. Changing some of our laws to suit our emerging problems
2. Compulsory education
3. Creation of job opportunities and compulsory economic engagement
4. Cultural/religious reorientation
5. Use of technology to advance security challenges
6. Improve government/community relationship
Now this older politician ( I don't want to mention his name) cornered me into agreeing that private initiatives must be involved. And some how, he brought up Atiku Abubakar's name into the conversion.
This is why I am writing this; Because of the salient points (salient because Atiku himself was not coherent enough about his micro plans for ending poverty in the North) he raised indicating that Waziri's fight with the APC and President Buhari was his (Atiku's) insistence on building the economy of the North East.
In clear contents, the North west have hijacked governance, politics and economy of the North. Waziri Adamawa was the nearest hope we had in restoring power to the North East. For me, this is a new one. I have never associated Atiku with this noble effort. Have you?
It did not make sense to me then. Even now that I have slept over it, it is still illogical, inconsistent and wholly asinine. The older politician has failed to explain to me why the Wazirin Adamawa allegedly accepted a stream of heinous conditions given to him by Obasanjo and the Igbo's before they endorsed him for President? Some of those conditions were the immediate suspension of Mambila hydro power station project, stop all oil exploration in the North, impose a ban on national cattle range, renew subsidy regimes and drop all corruption charges against their friends. This Atiku story would be reserved for another day.
There is need to have a coordinated collaboration, one that is well structured, to end poverty in the North. The activities of the three Governors i mentioned earlier have caught the attention of all and sundry. It is time that they all closed ranks and put out a Marshall plan-like efforts in dousing the 'talauci' situations of our people.
Lack of information is one gaping hole in the way we have administered our people. I could remember when the N-SIP program started, I asked one of the Adamawa members of the National Assembly about it, he told me that he doesn't know anything of such. Small benefits coming out from government does not have the desired trickle down effect.
It is only the very poor indulges in 'almajiri' practices. It ûvuis only the children of the poor are stolen and taken away for slavery. Why? They are allowed to roam freely for hawking, almajiranci and sometimes for absolute no reason but because they have nothing to do than simply roam about.
It is evident that there's a lot of disruptive innovations in the world. In tech, politics and economy. The one thing we must embrace is the way we practice our culture and religion. We have no excuse! KSA, UAE and Iran readily comes to mind in changing such perspectives.
Some of the focus areas must consider
1. Changing some of our laws to suit our emerging problems
2. Compulsory education
3. Creation of job opportunities and compulsory economic engagement
4. Cultural/religious reorientation
5. Use of technology to advance security challenges
6. Improve government/community relationship
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