Tamed transition

Two years to an election year, the America government has already established an office called "2017 Inaugural Support Team" that is saddled with the responsibilities of effecting a seamless transition of running government to the incoming one. The committee will also be handling the party, invitations and most importantly, the security arrangements before and after the event. That is planning.

Forty-eight hours after David Cameron left power and 10 Downing Street for Theresa May, the foreign policy of the new government was already felt in Nigeria through changes designed to drive revenue from visa application at their chancery. That is implementation.

Six months into the life of the present administration, we were still shopping for individuals “that we were made to believe” will have been screened and passed all integrity tests. The list eventually came and left everyone wondering what yardstick was used for the tests, in the first place. A year after, we still do not have a blueprint nor a decent budget to work with. For a government that rode into power with so much goodwill, and, did not have a liability of political petitions, they still did not hit the ground running. This is unacceptable.

For every need you can will from your infinite realm of imagination, someone here has made a provision for it. It is just incredible how every little thing that makes life easier is on the shelf in a mall. The focus and drive, I think, is on improving life and impacting the immediate environment without neglecting the ozone depletion. With that kind of mindset, there is no way their nation will not grow. That is commitment.

 It is good news that we are discovering oil in commercial quantity in every nook and cranny of our country, but who will be buying it? Oil is the fuel running international terrorism and coating pockets of war around the globe. The developed countries of the world are unanimous in their decision to fund research for alternate and cleaner energy. That is vision.

The new vocabulary in our country now is diversification. If we move our agriculture from the level of subsistence to mechanize and industrial, we would have sufficiently made provision for the future. We must also not align our agro business with politics by creating grazing routes all over the country for the benefit of cattle-rearers, who are infamously the subject of national security. That will be suicidal.

Peddling the fact that the former government mismanaged resources is a recycled knowledge. That oil price has dipped in the international market is a fact available on Google and that our leaders are corrupt and reckless is an incontrovertible culture of ours that this new administration cannot continue to dwell on. We are sick of excuses; let them plan with vision and implement with commitment. That is an order!