Mismanagement is a word deliberately misapplied by nefarious Nigerians to cover up deliberate fiscal failures and the premeditated financial operational calculated chaos aka systemic corruption when a Nigerian politician or appointee of a government, state or LGA in a Ministry, Department or Agency, MDA, or preferable Ministry, Agency or Department, MAD, knowingly corruptly decimates our resources. Such acts cumulatively amount to losses in the trillions of naira depriving the citizenry including our 18million out of school children and their families through a deliberate mismanagement strategy.
The funds are corruptly removed from servicing our suffering poor, making them poorer. The theft or mismanagement particularly reduces the quality and quantity of facilities available to the needy. Such funds could have built a conducive learning environment for all including Nigeria’s 18million out-of-school youth denied quality education-a Nigerian birth right required for personal empowerment and Nigeria’s survival.
Why do powerful Nigerians callously steal so much from poor Nigerians as to cause pain, depression, deprivation, disease and death? Why do most Nigerians in authority get so greedy, depriving the needy?
The effects of mismanaging the MDA/MADs electricity bill and pension fund payments monthly As-And-When-Due, AAWD, are two burning examples of the suffering caused when leaders from governors etc. fail to pay legitimate service charges AAWD, monthly, but prefer to ‘mismanage’ or corruptly ‘disappear’ the funds for self-serving corruption-driven projects with zero outcomes; or steal the money outright only to blame innocent pythons, other snakes, rats and cockroaches for eating the money meant for hospitals and schools for the 18m out of school youth and others.
EFCC has accused an ex-governor that he so loved his own children, to the detriment of the youth, and that he took government money to pay his own children’s school fees, in dollars, for years in advance. Did he include his infants in primary school zero, or some unborn babies? The governor ignored his self-imposed responsibility for educating millions of Nigerian children with that money. If confirmed, what mismanagement/corruption!! Calculate the loss and suffering among Nigerian children made ignorant by absence of that money. Did someone die? Perhaps, because money does save the uncertain lives of mothers and their unborn babies today, instead of being stolen to guarantee the educational future of only the governor’s offspring.
Most leaders across MDA/MADs have similarly self-enriched and failed Nigeria. Too few managed without stealing. Nigeria’s vast resources would have carried Nigeria higher up the ladder of development measured by the UNs MDGs and SDGs, the Transparency International Index, Corruption Perception Index etc. Foreigners since forever, release petty funds to fill the huge financial hole dug by pathologically fraudulent MAD ‘leaders’.
Of course, the developed world powers ensure Africa remains hungry ‘consumptive’ and ‘developing’, servile and dependent on the West. However, unasked, most African political elite under-develop their countries, and Nigeria leads by massively mismanaged Nigerian MDAs. Foreigners hardly mentioned Africa. That shows even Giant of Africa Nigeria’s ‘receivership status’ no matter how flamboyant Nigerian social functions are. We do know that foreign powers, white and yellow, snigger at us as we collect loans to steal to save in their banks. However, it is unlikely that the foreigners will take out a governor who refuses to steal or be corrupt and instead develops his state with every kobo of state income from IGR and FAAC allocations. So, what is our Nigerian leadership’s motivation to constantly steal from our children?
The ‘Great Lagos Traffic Jam’ of Wednesday April 2 precipitated by the ill-timed closure of one bridge is typical MDA mismanagement/corruption with misplaced power of governance. It demonstrates numerous costly, multi-billion naira loss lessons. Firstly, we see ‘Cause and Consequence of actions’. Here we clearly see cause i.e. closure, and consequence i.e. citywide 10-hour gridlock costing billions from shop closures, vendors losses from millions of office workers and trapped transporters. Secondly, we see a ‘Ministry of Road Arrogant Power’-, not a ‘Ministry of Road Service’. Thirdly, we see no ‘Time and Motion’ studies, essential to anticipate impact and prevent ‘Action -Reaction’ traffic catastrophes.
Disgracefully, such traffic catastrophic failures are commonplace. We have experienced it, without apology or sympathy or ministerial or press outrage, on the ‘Lagos Ibadan non-expressway’ for 15 years, ameliorated only in the last few months. Lagos, welcome to our ‘Traffic Suffering Club’ which was punished by the contractors and ignored for 15 years by the Ministry of Works when it took 6-12 hours to traverse.
The Auditor General’s 2021 Audit revelations of NNPC Plc reveal the DISGUSTING BUT EXPECTED ‘MEGA-MISMANAGEMENT’ AKA CORRUPTION ‘DISCOVERED’ IN THE NNPC Plc. AUDIT DEPRIVING OUR 18M OUT OF SCHOOL YOUTH OF THEIR FUTURE . How dare MDA/MADs AUDIT be so illegally late? We will only see the end of multi-billion diversions when we have immediate audits and criminal charges. All federal and state funds earned should go to rescuing citizens and strengthening our murdered currency value. The federal government should order immediate simultaneous 2022 and 2023 audits and introduce an in year Quarterly Auditor-General Report to prevent MEGA FRAUD AND MISMANAGEMENT. We need such audits to force our MDA leaders to STOP STEALING THE FUTURE.
Credit:The Nation