The recent international news story about the confiscation of three jets from Nigeria’s presidential fleet is just one of many embarrassing incidents that highlight our nation’s dysfunctional leadership and disregard for the rule of law, even in democracies.
It has also revealed a number of aspects of our lack of leadership and our indifference to the suffering of the expanding impoverished class inside our community.
The fact that the federal government went ahead with the jet deal despite the cacophonous cry against the purchase of a Presidential jet at this time when the people are going through a horrifying economic hardship shows the insensitivity of this administration. Added to it is the embarrassing aspect of our country’s Presidential jets being held for contractual breaches arising from yet another dimension of inadequate leadership tidiness.
I have been loud in my demand over time that the government at all levels should be accountable to the people, meaning that they must be very transparent in all their dealings. Until a court in France prohibits Nigeria from moving or selling these three jets, Nigerians have no iota of information about both the buying and selling of these aircraft. It has been done in secrecy.
Federal Government property, which belongs to the people, is being managed as a personal family asset..Paying as much as $100m dollars for a Presidential jet for a country that is the poverty capital of the World and has more out-of-school children with over 40% food inflation is the height of concern for the people’s feelings.
This incident has also opened up an aspect of indiscipline that is copiously embedded in our country which is the abuse and disrespect for the rule of law.
Here are questions begging for answers:
-1). To what extent did the Ogun government follow its agreement with the Chinese firm?
-2). After the UK court ruling that prohibited some Nigeria building in Liverpool, what did both Ogun state and Federal government do before the French court action ?
I would like to, therefore, challenge the federal government to come clean and transparent on this matter and tell Nigerians how we got to this latest international mess. – PO.
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