In my previous
blog where i wrote that ‘’NIGERIA A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A FAILED STATE’’,
i received lots of comments, while some are encouraging, some are not. As i
wrote then, the concept of “state failure”
focusing on three gaps mainly: Capacity, Security and Legitimacy. Any country
or countries that is not able to provide these three, is in the process of
failure. Capacity, when state institutions lack the ability to
effectively deliver basic goods and services to its population is a failed
state. Security, when the state is unable to provide security to its population
under the threat of armed groups is also a failed state. Lastly, Legitimacy,
when a “significant portion of its political elites and society reject the
rules regulating power and the accumulation and distribution of wealth is also
and indices of a failed state.
Having said that,
a failed state index can also be measure in term of education, youth
developments, skills acquisitions, sport developments, employment, technological
advancement etc, in this area of capacity building Nigeria is found wanting in
this direction!
How can someone
deduce a statement from the mouth of president and commander-in- chief of a legitimate
country when he said “When you talk about corruption, the private sector is
involved; the public sector is involved; even the individuals including other
societies, and I wouldn’t want to mention names so that I will not be
attacked,”! A failed statement from a failed leader about a failed country!
How a President
could say that if he mention name he would be attacked? Why is he president and
commander-in- chief then? This statement shows corruptions have eating deep in ramification
of government to the extent that it will soon be promulgated into law!
.It is no longer
news in Nigeria that provision of public amenities are not in existence;
widespread corruptions is just part of the system, criminality is the order of the day; no
employment for the youths; and the
economy is in sharp decline. What baffle me is that central government so weak
or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory.
Boko haram are now more equip more than our soldiers! The state has been rendered ineffective and is not able to enforce its
laws uniformly
Moral values are
no longer there, Pastors, Imams and our elders our now colluding with the
government of the day to milk the country dry, the rich are getting
richer, while the poor are getting
poorer.
This extreme political corruption, an impenetrable and ineffective bureaucracy,
judicial ineffectiveness, a situation whereby some individuals wield more power
than the state over a certain area is part of an example of
a failed state.
Part of a failed
state strategy is to indoctrinate the vulnerable youth, we can see in the
statements credited to one Yinka Gbadebo,NANS President that he challenged members of the
opposition party who are challenging the performance of the Jonathan
administration to a national debate.
He said, “If all
what we have said here today is not the truth, I want to challenge anybody in
Nigeria to a public debate to come and debunk these things.
“We are now wiser
and we would not be indoctrinated. We have formed a group known as Nigerian
Students Transformation Vanguard, to educate students of voting age to support
good governance, pragmatic progress in the 2015 elections” he said.
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