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| President Buhari |
Nigeria is drifting. The country’s economy is in recession.
But the president, Mohammadu Buhari in his response, recently called on his
ministers to think out of the box so as to revive the ailing economy.
With the way things stand, it is doubtful that there is
anybody among the bunch of saints and angels Mr. President spent six months to search
for who can think outside or inside the box. If a minster of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria can in a year Nigerian athletes performed dismally (except
the football Dream Team) in the just concluded Rio 2016 Olympics state that
athletes do not need training to win medals, then everything is wrong with the system.
Where we have a minster who is planning to import grass from
Brazil to graze cattle in Nigeria as well as seedlings of same to grow for
export to Saudi Arabia, the country is in trouble all day.
When another of the ministers under President Buhari’s watch
said that Nigeria would be manufacturing pencils in a digital age within the
next two years, then there is no modicum of thinking among this bunch of “heavenly
hosts”.
There is nobody who can think among them. And Nigeria’s
economic travails go beyond thinking. What is required presently is a practical
and pragmatic approach which will translate into economic rejuvenation in the
country.
Given that majority of those appointed by President Buhari
in the last one year has not fully aided the achievement of valuable governance,
I will suggest that he should muster the political will to irrespective of
party affiliation, drop many of the non-performing ministers and also reshuffle
the entire cabinet by appointing more vibrant and result-oriented professionals
and technocrats to assist in returning the economy, at least to where this
administration met it.
If anybody believes that this group of journey men masquerading
as ministers can think Nigeria out of the present economic predicament, they
can believe anything, just like they fell for change.
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