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“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes” Tony Blair.
Kaduna State is undoubtedly the third(3rd) most populous state, after Lagos and Kano States, with a population of about ten(10) million people, serviced by about one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) public servants, which translates to less than 1.2 % of the total population. Before 2016, the annual budget estimates of the state was consistently in favour of recurrent expenditure. For instance, Ramallan Yero’s Budget of Consolidation and Continuity’, his last before his resounding defeat in the 2015 elections , which El-Rufai inherited, had N72.8 billion for Recurrent expenditure, about 35.72% of the budget and N130.9billion for Capital expenditure, representing about 64.28% of the budget. The twin problems, is not only in the budget allocations, but in the actual releases as year in and year out, Recurrent expenditure continued to outperform Capital expenditure.
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By Owei Lakemfa
THERE is virtual chaos in the country today. The right hand does not seem to know what the left is doing. The presence or absence of President Muhammadu Buhari in the country, makes no difference; the country is on some autopilot. The tragedy is that we did not design the system that seems to control the trajectory of the country.
So the position of the Presidency, that despite weeks of the President’s projected absence in Britain for his seasonal medical tourism, he does not need to handover control of the country to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is quite correct. Frankly, there is nothing to handover. The main problem of Nigeria is that yesterday we did not prepare for today; today we are not learning from yesterday and are not preparing for tomorrow.
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By Owei Lakemfa
THERE is virtual chaos in the country today. The right hand does not seem to know what the left is doing. The presence or absence of President Muhammadu Buhari in the country, makes no difference; the country is on some autopilot. The tragedy is that we did not design the system that seems to control the trajectory of the country.
So the position of the Presidency, that despite weeks of the President’s projected absence in Britain for his seasonal medical tourism, he does not need to handover control of the country to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is quite correct. Frankly, there is nothing to handover. The main problem of Nigeria is that yesterday we did not prepare for today; today we are not learning from yesterday and are not preparing for tomorrow.
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