The Chief, Justice, and Merit, By Uddin Ifeanyi - Premium Times Opinion

Significant portions of last week were taken up by the public’s reaction to footage from the Senate’s confirmation of the current government’s pick for chief justice of the supreme court. Consensus seems to be that the candidate’s performance was below par for the course. In the one clip I stumbled on, the candidate stuttered, before egregiously mixing his metaphors. But it was a very short segment.

You may quarrel with the fact that our affirmative action programme lacks a sunset clause. You may even argue that the open-ended nature of the cheque it gives may have engendered in its recipients a sense of entitlement inconsistent with the larger aims of the programme. But no one can argue successfully that any part of this country completely lacks qualified personnel for the jobs at hand.

That we have a serious vermin problem in Nigeria, both literally and metaphorically, is not in doubt. What we haven’t had, thus far, are good cats. Why? Because those responsible for this space have failed to dimension the problem properly? Or because, for the most part, they cannot tell a good cat from a bad cat, and have thus favoured the hue of the feline’s fur over its proficiency as a mouser?

There, fancy consultants are recruited to head-hunt senior personnel, who then go on to act exactly as their predecessors did — in an ethical vacuum. Institutions in the private sector declaim their commitment to change — innovative products/services, efficient processes, and the cultural milieu within which these must take place — only for their recruitment processes to return into office new staff with traditional perspectives.

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