Starting from Eight paragraph of the article:

.....Singapore's public bureaucracy can compete with the best-run private corporations in governance and compensation. A strict meritocratic system governs recruitment into the civil service. The best and the brightest are plucked out from the graduating classes of every year, and invited to work in government. They are sent to the best schools abroad for further training. When they finish, they must come home.

At one point in their apprenticeship, they are taken on an exposure tour of the region, where they familiarise themselves with the economic environment, the politics, and social realities of Southeast Asia. Not surprisingly, Singapore's top civil servants are among the highest paid in the world.

The whole country is a technocrat's dream laboratory. In Singapore, planners are at work daily, formulating new programmes and policies, anticipating issues and complaints, and preparing the responses, long before the public has even thought of them. This view of governance as a planning exercise keeps the role of politics to a bare minimum. Virtually the only time it is allowed is during elections.

Protest is a highly regulated activity; the designated place for this endangered activity is the "Speakers' Corner". Beyond it, you need a police permit for a public gathering of five or more people.

If you make allegations of corruption or wrongdoing against any government official, you could be held liable for libel. The late Lee Kuan Yew was known to file such cases against his critics, and to doggedly pursue them until the offending party pays a financially ruinous fine. If you criticise government programmes and policies, you will be challenged to offer a better alternative; otherwise, you will be browbeaten into publicly admitting the foolishness of your views.

Yet, Singapore's past is far from that of a society of sheep. Indeed, this tiny nation has had a glorious tradition of political dissent. Lee himself belonged to a generation of courageous Singaporeans who spoke sharply and fought fiercely against the British who ruled them until 1959.

Most of those who joined Lee at the founding of the People's Action Party were socialists. They were progressive intellectuals, young professionals and labour organisers who passionately loved their country, but did not always agree on how it should be run once it was free.

One of Lee's implacable critics was Lim Hock Siew, a cofounder of the People's Action Party. On Februay 2, 1963, he and a 100 other activists were rounded up in a crackdown against suspected communists.

Jailed under the infamous Internal Security Act (ISA), which gave the executive the power to indefinitely detain anyone considered a threat to national security, Lim spent the next 20 years in prison, refusing an early offer of release in exchange for publicly acknowledging his faults.

The dreaded ISA remains in force until now, a grim reminder to Singaporeans and the rest of the world that this city-state's phenomenal prosperity and stability owe as much to the vision of Lee Kuan Yew as to the repressive tools by which the government has maintained public order.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Singapore--a-success-story-all-right-but-at-a-pric-30256893.html

PMB will do d same.
God bless Nigeria.

Beeman1:
PMB will do d same.

God bless Nigeria.

Singapore is much smaller with less diversity and as such much easier to control.

It won't work with Buhari because there is no unity in Nigeria and he also complicates issues by always favouring his region.

You'd be batshit insane to compare docile Buhari with the incredible Lee Kuan Yew.

tuale4u:


Singapore is much smaller with less diversity and as such much easier to control.

Yeah true talk.

Beeman1:
PMB will do d same.

God bless Nigeria.

Yeah if you read the first paragraph you will notice the

A strict meritocratic system governs recruitment into the civil service. The best and the brightest are plucked out from the graduating classes of every year, and invited to work in government. They are sent to the best schools abroad for further training. When they finish, they must come home

Did you see Quota System there?
Did you see federal character commission there?

Did you read anywhere where they recruited the children of APC chieftains into CBN or FIRS ?

did you read where of the eleven newly promoted AIGs and DIGs ten were Northerners?

Aegon:
Yeah if you read the first paragraph you will notice the

A strict meritocratic system governs recruitment into the civil service. The best and the brightest are plucked out from the graduating classes of every year, and invited to work in government. They are sent to the best schools abroad for further training. When they finish, they must come home

Did you see Quota System there?
Did you see federal character commission there?

Did you read anywhere where they recruited the children of APC chieftains into CBN or FIRS ?

did you read where of the eleven newly promoted AIGs and DIGs ten were Northerners?

Cry us a river. FYI,PMB will take us to the promise land whether u or any wailer like it or not.

God bless PMB.

God bless sane Nigerians.

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Try that in Africa, you will have the European Union, the world bank , the International Monetary Fund and the racist lobby at the United Nations calling you all types of names. Then the so called human rights groups such as Amnesty International and CIA - run Human Rights Watch will step in to wage a smear campaign against you.