FORTY-TWO MINISTERS WORK BELLOW STANDARD Can anybody within and outside the Aso Rock corridors of power convince the forlorn citizens of this country why we should have more than forty ministers and deputy ministers? At the end of the day, they have little or no achievement to showcase. Before their appointment little or no attention is paid on their pedigree. Adding salt to an injury is seeking the job description of these Ministers and their deputies, apart from attending long winding conferences, attending Executive briefs, approving heavy estacodes for their ever traveling trains, and awarding contracts to party stalwarts, relations and girlfriends they dont have other jobs. Gone were days when ministers are agents of development and were decorated with honour. In those days, they were the most Nigerian charismatic Ministers of all time and surprisingly they operated without funds. Among these early ministers, I recollect the hard work of Onyiba Aja Nwachukwu. As Education Minister, he funded Unity Schools and personally recruited the Urban Principals of those Higher Schools. He established the Lagos University and brought home Camebridge Dean of Sciences, Professor Eni Njoku and most of his white faculty to Unilag etc. Dr. Raymond Njoku is another case in point. He midwifed and supervised the now Ministry of Works, the Nigerian Railways, The Shipping Lines, and above all, the establishment of the fledging Nigerian Airways. All these establishments compete favourably with their Europeans counterpart and most importantly employed Nigerians as Pilots, Engineers etc Dr. Njoku supervised, Department of Works completed Carter Bridge in Lagos and River Niger Bridge in Asaba. The bridge that took the all artillery, Ogbunigwes of the civil war, and is now taking containers, tankers etc One wonder whether these present day Nigerian Ministers really do from 9am to 5pm on a daily basis. If Nigerian Minister of Works and Transportation is working, why are most of the federal roads death traps? Why is that our high officials continue to fly abroad for medical treatments whenever they fall sick? Ebola is wrecking havoc on unsuspecting Nigerians and no remedy have been found. The Ministry of Power is not embarrassed by the Nigerian peculiar power situation. The precarious situation we find ourselves in Nigeria is what President Obama called the poverty of ambition. He said poverty of ambition is when our ambition is to wear fancy clothes, fancy shoes, drive fancy cars and own fancy houses These forty-two ministers have been in goverment for all their lives and the words of Obama is the summary truth of what they represent.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:23:11 +0000
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