Leadership skill sets important in building organizations: the Adamawa project

I don't know when exactly I became a ferocious reader. I can not also say pointedly at what time my interests shifted to reading; not that type of reading where you devour a 300 page  novel in a day. I mean serious ones like...oh you have to pay me to make sense out of your lives.

I stumbled into some disturbing statistics about Adamawa State. Months before now, Kaduna State had made headlines about policies that had resolved the State-local government joint account imbroglio. Structured policies have created tons of interested citizens hungry for ICT skills, this has created many I.T hubs across the State. And recently, the Governor himself proudly announced a 72.24% and only 27.76 represented recurrent expenditures for the 2020 fiscal year, meaning that the cost of governance has been pruned to allow more for developing infrastructure and other needed projects. The first time in the history of the country. Most astounding is Kaduna state clinching the top spot for 'enforcing contracts 2018', beating states like Lagos which we all thought was a role model. By the way, Lagos came number 16th on that list.

The world bank figures as revealed by StatiSense has Adamawa at number 33 on the lists of 'Enforcing contracts' and also crawling at the bottom number 36 on 'Starting a business' index. All these groupings is clustered around statistics on  "ease of doing business" 2018.

Why these became disturbing to me is the fact that Borno state that has been steeped in insurgency as far back as 2009 is 4th on the list of 'Enforcing contract' and 13th on 'Starting a business' index. Isn't this shameful for Adamawa?

How did all these happened? In theory, Adamawa is rich. Practically and visibly, we are poor. It will take a visionary leader to turn our fortunes to fruition. Agriculture, ICT and skill acquisition are immediate windows to get our people out of poverty and into jobs and abundance.

How we do these matters a lot. But I do not see the new set of government appointees doing anything different. I bet we will continue to get similar results as the previous ones.

Unfortunately for leaders, it is their skills that make organizations succeed. Before Dora Akunyeli, NAFDAC wasn't well known and it is currently in a life support after her passing. The same scenario is playing out in the ministry of communications and Digital Technology. The current minister seems to have  something the previous ministers lacked. In the same vein, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri and his team must not condescend in building the Adamawa project.

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