We are about to celebrate the 100th day of uncertainty, at state and
federal levels; administrations confirmed as performing only in the
press statements of media aides.
Painfully, we see leaders given
a four-year mandate acting as though they have twenty years to deliver
on the simplest of their promises.
More painful, perhaps, is the
justification of their lack of cogent policy frameworks by a legion of
ever-uncritical partisans, always quick to declare that past administrations had manifesto and still failed. Our level of political dejection is that deep!
A policy framework is like a diagnosis, and without it, how would an
economic manager understand the pathology of the state he's been elected
to redeem? What we have, in many states of the federation today, are
populist administrations guided by trial and error.
I can bet
that only a handful of Governors have studied the procedures employed by
their predecessors to understand why and how they failed. And so, in
the historic 100th day, we are going to endure the torture of reading
blind administrations' projects, done without any study to realise their
economic and social impacts; only done or proposed for their PR values.
Gimba Kakanda
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