The CBN governor said, “People say
everything is about politics and let us go to
the politics of it. For those of you who
were in Warri, this is a country where we
have 774 local government councils. In
each council you have a chairman and a vice-chairman and maybe 10 councillors
and some other aides. “Take a state like Kano which used to be
one state. But now it is Kano and Jigawa.
When it was one state where you had one
governor and maybe nine or 10
commissioners, I went to King’s College
and Ahmadu Bello University on Kano State government scholarship. My parents
didn’t pay, I was in King’s College and the
state government even paid for my rail
ticket from Lagos to Kano and back and I
wasn’t the only one. “Now what do you have? That one state
has become two states, two governors,
two deputy governors, 40 commissioners,
maybe 80 legislators and only God knows
how many special advisers and assistants
they have. “This is not about NLC or Trade Union
Congress or the President or the National
Assembly, but it is about us as a country
deciding whether this constitution that we
have chosen makes sense.” He said the Nigerian constitution which
made it compulsory that each state must
have a minister had also contributed to the
problem of the country, adding that no
meaningful development would be made
unless the problem was looked at critically. He said, “The constitution says that there
must be a minister from every state of the
federation. Let me ask you, as intelligent
and as educated human beings, what is
the connection between the number of
states and the number of ministries at the federal level. “We are talking about federal character, so
if you have 50 states today, must we have
50 ministries, if we have a 100 states must
we have 100 ministries? “I want to understand so if we create a
state for the South-East since they say
they want one more state, and then you
must have one more minister and create a
ministry even if we don’t need it. So
because you have created one more state, the Federal Government must have a
minister from that state.” He pointed out that with the way political
appointments were made in the country, it
would be difficult for the people to
remember who headed what ministry in
the past. Sanusi said, “Let us be realistic, between
1999 and now how many ministers have
we had? You have 42, you do cabinet
reshuffle and bring in another 42 and I am
sure between 1999 and now we have had
more than 200 ministers and how many of them can we really remember. “Just to give you an idea of how ridiculous
this is, if I ask you to name between 1999
and now the Nigerians who have been
ministers how many can you remember?
Why? Because they are so many and their
jobs are so poorly defined and you cannot remember what they did because the only
way to remember a man is based on what
he did.” He said political issues such as the federal
character principle which had occupied the
place of merit needed to be addressed. “We cannot develop if government is
spending 70 per cent of the nation’s
revenue on itself and spending 30 per cent
on the people. Is that a sensible situation?”
Sanusi queried. He said rather than calling for his sack the
issue of bloated recurrent expenditure
should be looked into, adding that no
country in Africa used Nigeria’s political
model because of its expensive nature.

too bad

D man is making sense. D money our politicians consume monthly is enough to employ a thousand graduates.

I say, Sanusi is nursing something!!!

0lumide: I say, Sanusi is nursing something!!!

Yes, he is likely nursing something, but if he means even 10% of all he's been saying lately (and I don't see why he wouldn't mean every word), then he remains the only person in the North so far that is qualified (in my own book) to vie for the presidency of Nigeria.
All others are waiting to share oil money and add zero to the system.

A lone voice crying in the wilderness as usual.
Poor thing!
Oga. . .chop your money and go and sleep!
Haba!!!