Breaking away from business as usual in electing our Public Officers

By Engr. Usman Baba Most Nigerians look at Public Service as an opportunity to get rich. People placed their interest above national interest and that is un-patriotism. You hardly see a person who is vying for a public office having an agenda, vision or mission. They are agenda-less, the only item on their order paper is how to amass wealth by looting public money; they intend, without the fear of God and lack of conscience to steal money meant for provision of portable drinking water, primary health care, building of schools, development of agriculture and provision of employment. An aspirant to a particular public office MUST have a plan on how he or she intends to add value to the society he intends to represent. Competence must always be the watch word. If you have never for one day stopped to wonder and get worried about toddlers hawking pure water, ground nut and kola in the market or street at a time that child should either be in the school or attending additional lesson, then you are not fit to aspire to Public Office. If you have never get worried as our people mostly in the vilkages still uses stream/river water to wash, cook and drink, then you are not qualified to aspire. If you have never thought on how to get our teeming youths employed both in formal and informal sector, then your certainly do not have it. We need to join hands and resist such sets of people from occupying our public offices. Evil can only prevail when the people of goodwill fold their arms o watch! Yes, we can!