All that we get to read or hear these days is how much the three tiers of government in the country shared and how broke they later became.
Now that they have shared N409bn and dispersed to their respective states, what next? Just wait and watch the dollar and pounds sterling become scarce.
This has become our monthly routine and ugly experiences because the media and civil rights activists who should ask the right questions never bother to rightfully extract from these politicians in very consistent and sustainable manners how they spend these monies that are obviously not their pocket monies.
Now that they have shared N409b, we expect Femi Falana, Shehu Sanni, Festus Keyamo, Dino Melaye, Oby Ezekwesili and all the other motley crowd of civil rights activists to march to Umuahia or Osogbo or Owerri to occupy and carry the #payourcivilservants placards.
Are those poor civil servants not Nigerians? Are their fundamental human rights not being trampled upon by some despotic and greedy bunch of kleptomaniacs?
Democracy dies and the people suffer when citizens and institutions fail to play their role of checks and balances on those elected to serve the people.
It suffers when the very enlightened ones who should act as the mouthpiece of the masses and the downtrodden now turn themselves into the “vuvuzellas” of the demigods in power perhaps, because of either clannish, primordial or pecuniary interests.
In the face these oddities, how then do we expect to sustain pressures on those we elected to perform? Eternal vigilance on the part of the electorate, accountability and transparency on the part of the political office holders are necessary democratic ingredients that can translate and guarantee steady and sustainable flow of the dividends of democracy to the people.
Now that they have taken in these monies, can we collectively hold them on the jugulars to utilise them for the benefits of the people, before they channel them to forex operators to convert into their private assets.
If the civil servants who prepare the expense notes and vouchers for contracts and expenditures are not deep in corruption, it will be very difficult for these politicians to divert monies meant to pay them for their work into private accounts.
We can only experience the true change we desire when we all collectively do the right things. God will help us.
naemeka Obiaraeri
Ikoyi, Lagos State:
Now that they have shared N409bn and dispersed to their respective states, what next? Just wait and watch the dollar and pounds sterling become scarce.
This has become our monthly routine and ugly experiences because the media and civil rights activists who should ask the right questions never bother to rightfully extract from these politicians in very consistent and sustainable manners how they spend these monies that are obviously not their pocket monies.
Now that they have shared N409b, we expect Femi Falana, Shehu Sanni, Festus Keyamo, Dino Melaye, Oby Ezekwesili and all the other motley crowd of civil rights activists to march to Umuahia or Osogbo or Owerri to occupy and carry the #payourcivilservants placards.
Are those poor civil servants not Nigerians? Are their fundamental human rights not being trampled upon by some despotic and greedy bunch of kleptomaniacs?
Democracy dies and the people suffer when citizens and institutions fail to play their role of checks and balances on those elected to serve the people.
It suffers when the very enlightened ones who should act as the mouthpiece of the masses and the downtrodden now turn themselves into the “vuvuzellas” of the demigods in power perhaps, because of either clannish, primordial or pecuniary interests.
In the face these oddities, how then do we expect to sustain pressures on those we elected to perform? Eternal vigilance on the part of the electorate, accountability and transparency on the part of the political office holders are necessary democratic ingredients that can translate and guarantee steady and sustainable flow of the dividends of democracy to the people.
Now that they have taken in these monies, can we collectively hold them on the jugulars to utilise them for the benefits of the people, before they channel them to forex operators to convert into their private assets.
If the civil servants who prepare the expense notes and vouchers for contracts and expenditures are not deep in corruption, it will be very difficult for these politicians to divert monies meant to pay them for their work into private accounts.
We can only experience the true change we desire when we all collectively do the right things. God will help us.
naemeka Obiaraeri
Ikoyi, Lagos State:
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