NIGERIA A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A FAILED STATE -2

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.