Some people in government apparently see committees as the panacea for all of Nigeria's problems. These people set up committees with wild abandon.

But checkout what some folks make of committees:


A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

-Fred Allen


A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

-Milton Berle


If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

-Ross Perot


A committee is an animal with four back legs.

-John le Carre


Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

-Fred Allen


If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

-Charles Kettering


A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

-C. Northcote Parkinson


'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

-Anthony Jay



Sometimes I wonder if Nigeria is really a democracy or a kakistocracy?


What do you make of committees?

wow, i see reason why we never move forward, this is serious

domack99: wow, i see reason why we never move forward, this is serious

You can say that again.

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