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born 1958 Nigeria
Peter Ndalikali Jiya is a Nigerian senator. He currently serves as the Senator representing Niger South district in Niger state in the 10th National Assembly.
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It will not get down as it ought to because there is always a manipulative tendency on the part of the privileged elite to satisfy themselves before the generality of the people.
We need that particularly for the younger generation in specific fields. Even in the United States, government backs up business people; gives them concessions for them to come up.
Yes, he was a governor but a governor of a state, with a massive population but with little land mass. But now, he is the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; a massive country.
You will discover that you cannot drink from that river immediately. But give it a few days, it will clear and become a very good source of water supply that will refresh, renew and strengthen people.
Yes, it is taking a long time and it should take because when you are outside the government, you don't know the depth of the issues that confront you.
We have to look back at the time General Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon were in power. They took a position and the whole country queued behind them.
But in a situation where you have N10 and you hardly use N2 or N3 to work, then the executors are very unfair to the system. It becomes difficult for the arrow head to monitor some of these things.
They appear not to be working because you cannot make something to stand on nothing. For them to work, the leadership must show example. Once the leader is able to define a goal and pursue it diligently, there is only one choice left for the followers.
The greatest challenge we have as a nation is the greed in the system. It is unparalleled. If you are given N10 to work and you use N7 to work, and possibly N3 for logistics as it were, that is fair and reasonable enough.
It is either to follow him or get out of that system, because if the leader is serious, has defined his goal and faithfully following those goals to see to their execution, then the followers have no choice but to follow too.
Now, the issue of palliative is an- other thing, which will go a long way to mitigate but the usual Nigerian attitude has not provided the required palliative as it were. A lot of the palliatives in terms of the volume of money given will end up with the elite.
So, it’s all about us. But if we make a scapegoat of the operators or executors who have failed in the execution of the policy, then everybody will sit up.
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