Though, one would have considered this gesture a very noble and well thought out humane gesture, but considering the fact that the population of those working at the secretariat (government workers) is a very insignificant number, compared to the total majority of the population of the state, suffice us to conclude that the objective of the gesture has been defeated on arrival.

Yesterday, “to mitigate the adverse effect of hunger in Akwa Ibom State”, the government, through its ministry of Agriculture doled out the sales of garri, one of the leading staple foods in the state and sold three cups for a hundred naira, against the two cups for five hundred naira that it is being sold in the markets across the state. Though, one would have considered this gesture a very noble and well thought out humane gesture, but considering the fact that the population of those working at the secretariat (government workers) is a very insignificant number, compared to the total majority of the population of the state, suffice us to conclude that the objective of the gesture has been defeated on arrival. This is where Governor Udom Emmanuel, a “supposed” corporate expert continue to get it wrong since his emergence as the helmsman of Akwa Ibom Sate, as he completely and absolutely act through all of his policies as if he knows nothing about social governance, except he is deliberately ignoring the majority of the state’s population and plunging the state into poverty!

One would have admonished the governor to go and learned from his predecessor when it comes to social governance, but considering his antagonistic stand with his former boss, we would employ the governor to instead listen to his conscience, as well as consider the recent data released from the office of the national statistic for employment, which revealed that his state is leading in high rate of unemployment.
When the governor inaugurated his dakata philosophy focus of his administration, many had thought that finally, base on the contents of the creed, that the governor was going to take into cognizance, some very vital aspects of development that has often been overlooked, which had kept the state down, despite the many investment that has been made in time past. So in the advent of the launched of the philosophy, many creative creators had gone to their creative rooms and created one thing or the other that was going to amplified and deliver on the objective of the philosophy base on their understanding, but of all those creations, none was suitable for the government to adopt, as the shylock government that feels it has the monopoly to corporate governance couldn’t see any reason to work with any of those incremental small scale social organizations with their creation. What the governor and his managers failed to understand as leaders is the simple fact that, often times those ideas may not suits their fantasies, but considering the fact that the approval, adoption and funding of some of those little incremental ideas would have gone a long way in putting food and daily bread on the table of two or three people whom those small scale organizations would have engaged in executing those ideas, people that the government couldn’t employed. And this would have gone a very long way in amelioration the effect of hunger and unemployment in the state. What we are trying to say here is that, being a good and effective father or leader requires selflessness, and having a human face. And the best of ideas that cannot consider humanity is no idea worth consider at all. Governor Udom still has two years left in his tenure to do the right thing and leave a lasting legacy for himself and his children. Unless he does not care.

We must fry garri for nairaland today