Nigeria, our only country
is undergoing a difficult period which also demands urgent measure to surmount
the situation. The government of Buhari has appointed the various ministers to
different portfolio to the best of his knowledge. He may have expected the best
from his ministers but the people have past their verdict on the ministers
based on their performance. It was observed before now that most of the
ministers are placed on where they could not function properly. Put differently,
a square peg on a round hole. This one reason may have made some of them not to
function optimally, hence complains from the populace.
The House of Representative
and the Senate had been on recess for the past three months and had just resumed
plenary. On resumption, most of their deliberations centered on the economy…the
recession which Nigeria had find themselves in. They all came up with different
measures to curb the situation with some like Deputy Senate President (Ike
Ekweremadu) calling on Mr President to carry out minor re-shuffle of his cabinet by taking Kemi Adeosun, Minister
of Finance and Udoma Udo Udoma
of Budget and National Planning to a different ministry where they could
function optimally.
Some of the honorable rep
and senators suggested that the treasury single account (TSA) have made some
bank to be short of fund and that has resulted in sacking of their workers. The
devaluation of the naira and hence the general increase in price of goods and
services. The naira on daily basis is losing value to US dollar. The oil and
gas which our economy solely rely on before now has decreased to about 800
thousand barrel per day as against about 2.2million barrel per day due to militancy
in the Niger Delta. In all these myriad of problems, there have been calls from
various quarters to Mr President with one solution or the other.
The senate and house of
representative on resumption from recess called for cabinet reshuffle but the
governors came up after their meeting held today (22nd September,
2016) passing vote of confidence on the Minister of Finance and Budget and National
Planning Minster. But must we play politics with everything in Nigeria? For
goodness sake, if these people are not performing, take them to where they can
perform while bringing those that will do the job better to the ministry. The bottom
line is giving the people of Nigeria the benefit of democracy. Passing vote of
confidence where it should not is absurd and will not do the President and
indeed the people any good. Let us call a spade a spade.
In my own opinion, the
cabinet is due for minor reshuffle, drop those that are not performing and
bring in new hand irrespective of party affiliation. The President should as a
matter of urgency see how he can dialogue with the Niger Delta agitators.
Reason being that even if Mr President deploys military to the Niger Delta, it
will not solve the problem but will rather aggravate it. Good enough the militant
has declare a seize fire in the past one month and this single act has increase
the oil and gas output per day to about 1.7million barrel per day compared to
800 thousand before the seize fire. That
goes to tell our dear President that there is no alternative to dialogue and it
should do all he can within his power to make sure that peace prevail in the
Niger delta.
On pulling the economy out
of recession to the part of growth, the government should inject fund into the
economy through capital project. Funds, be it small of big lying idle in the
vault will not help the country to growth path. When capital project are
awarded and fund released, the teaming unemployed youth will be employed to
execute these jobs, thereby earning salary and wages at the end of the month
and directly or indirect increase their purchasing power. The ordinary seller in
the street and in the market will be patronized, and the system becomes lively
but currently everywhere is dry.
Mr President was voted
overwhelmingly into power because of the confidence the electorate repose in
him, and I want to believe that he will put into consideration these categories
of people in whatever action he takes. The people around you might not be in
touch with the people on the street…and that is why you need to listen to the
ordinary people and not necessarily listen to people around you ONLY. They might
not tell you the WHOLE truth. Those people may want to tell you what you may
want to hear but sometimes, it is important you look outside before taken some
decision(s).
Yes, you had just finished reading my write up. What is your view?
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