Amplifying David Pilling -- Yes, what really is Nigerian government for?

Recently, David Pilling, Financial Times of London’s editor for Africa wrote an article title as above. He asked, “What is the Nigerian government for?” Trust the British, masters of subtlety and understatement. For in that article was loaded a lot of messages, some of which the Nigerian presidency got and others it ignored or could not process.

Incidentally, the man who has caught my fancy and to whom I’ve been drawing attention lately with regard to the 2023 elections – Bola Tinubu – thinks like David Pilling. He advocated at his 2019 birthday symposium that: “ The issue of insecurity, unemployment and extremism has many things to do with governance, over time. We must tackle our deep and widespread poverty…. If we limit the government’s role under the erroneous assumption that government spending is intrinsically unproductive, then we tether ourselves to failure. We would do well to more critically study how other populous nations such as the UK, US, Germany and China charted their course during their formative years….

This is how governments create jobs. I think, in summary, both those who run governments here and their libertarian friends who talk of private sector everything may not have attained that level of humanity that sees the opportunities for reorganizing society and extracting great value, simply by investing in people and organizing the environment. We live worse than beasts here and complain about not having money or jobs. Something just has to start changing.

I realize that I have spent quite a bit of time writing about this fact, including the state of our dismal budgets which have nothing in them for the real people of Nigeria at a mere $140 per head all through the year. I have written two books on this – ‘Change is Going to Come’ and ‘Revolution of Ideas’, several articles, and even my PhD thesis , is on this matter of how to really solve our unemployment problem, away from the perennial self-deception with ‘youth entrepreneurship’.

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