Nigeria is blessed with so much human resources. We tend to speak and write big grammar without accomplishing the aim for this eloquence. I stopped attending exhibitions and summits for a while now because I discovered there is a resemblance in the language.
The case of Nigeria is after much ‘said and said’ with no execution of what is said and written. Since our transition to a pretentious democratic state, this fluency gap has increased and it is getting worrisome.
The 21st Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) held on the 13th of October 2015, should be applauded because it was a rendition mix of fluency and new topics like zero base budgeting, Public Private Partnership, Diversification, roles of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), blah blah blah blah….
A recurring rhythm is stressed on ‘diversification’ but is there any sight of policies leaning towards this term?
NESG presented different stakeholders and veterans in both the private and public sector, which shows a sign of progress but the challenges of poverty and inequality keeps rattling the economy and it seems there is no direction to clean up this mess.
A yardstick for governance is communication, so therefore eloquence is pertinent but the country has embarked on too much of this, thereby paying less attention to implementation. Many blame it on corruption but emphasis should also be placed on incompetence. A successful businessman often tells me, a leader must have a knowledge of ‘NUMBERS’.
The knowledge of numbers is germane to a decision maker and it is obvious most of the country’s social scientists do not pay attention to this part. An example is the popular party manifestos in the process of canvassing for votes.
How do you embark on a meal per day for students, five thousand naira for unemployed youths that fall within the bracket of the labor force blah blah blah…. without giving a concrete mode of sustaining these policies (freebies).
During the ministerial screening, credit must given to some ministerial nominees for educating us fluently, hopefully the eloquence might be converted into governance when work starts.
The duplicity of eloquence is also obtainable in the private sector and bosses are guilty of this misconception. In the private sector, words like strategy, platform, blueprint, template blah blah blah… is prevalent in the mouths of few bosses without delegating or executing plans.
There is hypocrisy about the basic understanding on what governance entails. The well knowledgeable bosses should be wary of individuals that also fluently analyze plans and proposals using Powerpoint or a Pitch video.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a scam tool, it is advantageous to lazy managers.
The country has often repeated the same words overtime and the populace needs these plans executed, leaders should get things right and done, not just ‘said’.
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