The Worthy Agendas; Setting The Potential Focus Areas For The Next Presidency, By Augustine S. Akande | Sahara Reporters

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Nigeria is in dire straits, and could well be defined as a failed state. Oxford dictionary defines a failed state as a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control. Another definition of a failed state is a state that is unable to perform the two fundamental functions of the sovereign nation-state in the modern world system: it cannot project authority over its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries.

The governing capacity of a failed state is attenuated such that it is unable to fulfill the administrative and organizational tasks required to control people and resources and can provide only minimal public services.

The next president of Nigeria should also be positively brutal. I define positive brutality as the ability to deploy the right amount of force, coercion and seriousness in such a way that greatest good are done to the greatest number of people. For example, it is known that corruption has hands and weapons needed to fight and indeed fights in Nigeria. We have many instances in the evolution of our democracy where corruption has fought and continues to fight.

In the Islamic faith, people have preached jihadist doctrines for years, abused Islamic education and have raised armies of Almajiris who have now become the menace called banditry and terrorism. Sadly, some people responsible for these mis-normal have now been rewarded with ministerial positions of the Republic.

Conversely, I define the education that manages as the education that empowers people with management, leadership and emotional intelligence skills that empowers them to manage the productive base of a state. This education is in areas of economics, public administration, political science and other courses in the arts, humanities, social and management sciences. I recommend a 60:40 split between the education that build and the education that manages.

 

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