SUPER MINISTRY: THE RIGHT WAY TO SUPER TRANSFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE WISE.
If we can have a man or a woman at the helm of affairs of a state or the presidency in Nigeria, there is no argument that will stand in my opinion against a super ministry.
Superintending an establishment is about delegation of shared responsibilities and spelling out limits, we do this everyday either in the family setting or as the head of an organisation.
The recent annoucement of ministerial appointments and portfolios has unleashed an avalanches of commnetaries and analyses from bloggers and columnists alike proffering multiplicity of methodology, practical and theoritical as advice to the ministers designate.
This is good news because it is a manifestation of the level and niveau of citizens engagement in the democratic mechanisms and processes that will eventually advance our nation moving forward to change! change!! change!!!
It is interesting here to note that we have had commentaries and analyses lading with neoliberal capitalist laissez-faire conceptualization to socialist centrist analysis of developmental goals that must be pursued by the ministers in the realization of delivering dividend of democracy to the people of Nigeria.
In my previous article- http://www.theparadigmng.com/2015/11/11/mbuharis-cabinet-of-heuristic-transformation/ I made it vividly manifest that @Mbuhari has made the right calculation by given @tundefashola the ministry of power, works, and housing, or should I say the minister for infrastructure.
My focus here is not ideological rather I am more concerned with simpleness, commonsensical presentation of issues as my conceptual horizon permits. I am in favour of super ministry and equally important is my conviction that @mbuhari has done well by given @tundefashola the ministry of power, works, and housing.
Competence and performance are the key criteria here, we can't fault @tundefashola on these requirements.
Merging the ministries is not a wrong step at all, put rightly the said ministries will still retain their structures and @tundefashola will have competent dedicated technocrates around him to deliver his mandate to the people of Nigeria, so those in pessimistic modes operandi or mindset watch this space.
The merger of the three ministries would not constitute any significant problem operationalization wise as some pessimist would want us to belief, note they still maintain their fundamental structures they are not scrapping them rather they will be rationalized in my opinion in comformity with economic reality.
No need for apprehension over this because in an emergency dire economic strait this is what you do to achieve efficiency and optimal functionality by given responsibility to competent individual with proven record of performance.
The challenges might be overwhelming for some people but not for everybody, so for pessimist what seems like a mountain for you is a lowland for someone else therefore the so called challenges are surmountable with the adoption of an heuristic, eclectic operational methodology. China, Malaysia, Singapore, have all adopted such approaches in the past and the results are evidently there for your kaleidoscopic perception.
We cannot allow ourselves to be psychologically bamboozled with UN/World Bank unfavourable data about our developmental indices. What is neccessary is focus, commitment, and delivering what is deliverable within the time frame that our ministers are in their positions in this case @tundefashola.
Don't expect miracles and don't promise miracles because Nigerians do not expect magic from their government, ours is a realistic populace what we need is a modicum of realistic performance given our economic reality.
Note: No nation worlwide has been able to provide all that its populace need in term of infrastructure, it has always been an evolutionary paradigm of providing the basic minimum to alleviate grounding poverty.
Those looking for miracle must go to religious revivalist temple, that is why political administration and good governance is no religion.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: @pearl2prince
Superintending an establishment is about delegation of shared responsibilities and spelling out limits, we do this everyday either in the family setting or as the head of an organisation.
The recent annoucement of ministerial appointments and portfolios has unleashed an avalanches of commnetaries and analyses from bloggers and columnists alike proffering multiplicity of methodology, practical and theoritical as advice to the ministers designate.
This is good news because it is a manifestation of the level and niveau of citizens engagement in the democratic mechanisms and processes that will eventually advance our nation moving forward to change! change!! change!!!
It is interesting here to note that we have had commentaries and analyses lading with neoliberal capitalist laissez-faire conceptualization to socialist centrist analysis of developmental goals that must be pursued by the ministers in the realization of delivering dividend of democracy to the people of Nigeria.
In my previous article- http://www.theparadigmng.com/2015/11/11/mbuharis-cabinet-of-heuristic-transformation/ I made it vividly manifest that @Mbuhari has made the right calculation by given @tundefashola the ministry of power, works, and housing, or should I say the minister for infrastructure.
My focus here is not ideological rather I am more concerned with simpleness, commonsensical presentation of issues as my conceptual horizon permits. I am in favour of super ministry and equally important is my conviction that @mbuhari has done well by given @tundefashola the ministry of power, works, and housing.
Competence and performance are the key criteria here, we can't fault @tundefashola on these requirements.
Merging the ministries is not a wrong step at all, put rightly the said ministries will still retain their structures and @tundefashola will have competent dedicated technocrates around him to deliver his mandate to the people of Nigeria, so those in pessimistic modes operandi or mindset watch this space.
The merger of the three ministries would not constitute any significant problem operationalization wise as some pessimist would want us to belief, note they still maintain their fundamental structures they are not scrapping them rather they will be rationalized in my opinion in comformity with economic reality.
No need for apprehension over this because in an emergency dire economic strait this is what you do to achieve efficiency and optimal functionality by given responsibility to competent individual with proven record of performance.
The challenges might be overwhelming for some people but not for everybody, so for pessimist what seems like a mountain for you is a lowland for someone else therefore the so called challenges are surmountable with the adoption of an heuristic, eclectic operational methodology. China, Malaysia, Singapore, have all adopted such approaches in the past and the results are evidently there for your kaleidoscopic perception.
We cannot allow ourselves to be psychologically bamboozled with UN/World Bank unfavourable data about our developmental indices. What is neccessary is focus, commitment, and delivering what is deliverable within the time frame that our ministers are in their positions in this case @tundefashola.
Don't expect miracles and don't promise miracles because Nigerians do not expect magic from their government, ours is a realistic populace what we need is a modicum of realistic performance given our economic reality.
Note: No nation worlwide has been able to provide all that its populace need in term of infrastructure, it has always been an evolutionary paradigm of providing the basic minimum to alleviate grounding poverty.
Those looking for miracle must go to religious revivalist temple, that is why political administration and good governance is no religion.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: @pearl2prince
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