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Lafiagi Emirate Youth Transparent Association
(LEYTA), meeting with its usual pomp and
dialogue urged the people on tribal-liquor-blind to
be blindless on the issue of our leaders, most
importantly Senator Shaaba Lafiagi.
The senator derided his detractors and
trumpeted the achievements of his tenure so fall
to defend himself. But if you took his talks while
his pronouncements sounded good to you of his
zone, which many us suffering from, then the
failed and broken promises and general
incompetence of his tenure will rest on us, and
we would be wondering as to the state's affairs
and the black future that lies ahead, if there is
no radical change in the way we conduct our
affairs.
Let us be blunt. No amount of concealing the
facts can hide the perilous state in which
Lafiagians (people of Lafiagi) find themselves
today. No amount of placebos delivered at
national conferences can heal the brokenness
and the assorted afflictions that plague the
Lafiagi body into politic. No amount of
disingenuity offered from political platforms can
ease the hopelessness of the Lafiagi's people
and lessen the pain that they felt and have been
feeling since they elected him (Senator Shaaba
Lafiagi).
As successive governments find it harder to dole
out scarce benefits and spoils, more people are
realizing and how much they have been duped
by their political leaders. More are recognizing
that they have been given a four out of ten, and
they are merely being used as means to their
desired ends; ends determined by their political
subordinates. In the midst of all their pains and
sufferings, the senator is peeved at citizens who
dare to criticize him. He is in the typical mode of
the politician who believes that every criticism is
unfair and carries an agenda. If it is not a
gender-based agenda it is class-based. He does
not have to remind us from where he has come
to establish his bonafides as a senator. He has
been around a long time and his credentials are
well-known. But at the twilight of his political
career, there is not a great thing that he can do
in the limited available time to polish those
credentials to make them more acceptable to
the people, because the credentials are nothing
(no achievement). Or are we wrong? We really
wish we can see a rejuvenated and transformed
when Mr Senator taking Lafiagi to a place of
greatness where he has not gone before. But our
hearts tell us short of a political miracle that,
this is not going to happen because we know he
won't do it and he has capacity to do it.
The senator and members of the old guard in
both political friends and home friends are too
wedded to the past; they are too much prisoners
of the failed political achievement that has been
Lafiagi's unfortunate experience since they
articulated. They only see what is wrong with
their systems when they are sitting in the
waiting-lounge hungry to get back into the
driver's seat. But those who wish Lafiagi well
must not ease up on giving just and reasonable
critiques of power and how it is exercised by
those who are given the authority to exercise it.
The senator would be well advised that we that
criticize him do have his best interests at heart.
He and anyone else who occupies the senator's
chair, carries enormous power consequent on the
office they occupy. Speaking for ourselves, we
don't know his personally lifestyles, and so have
no concern about his personal life. But as a
patriotic citizen of Lafiagi, we have to be
concerned with what he does with the power
that has been given to him.
The senator is no doubt aware that many of the
things for which we criticized would never be
said to him positively by his colleagues. Their
fawning loyalty to him is for reasons
aforementioned and often leaves important
things undone. Those in his inner circle are the
quintessential apologists; they will tell him what
he needs to hear. But this soothing palliative
may not be what he needs to hear or represent
what is best for the people of Lafiagi. They do
so because they know that their political
longevities depend on speaking nicely of the
leader in front of him in order to accumulate
their selfishness desires. One would not be
surprised that there are those who wish him
failure by the ways in which they titillate his ego.
He should be very mindful of this and
acknowledged what is leadership is all about.
Leadership is a necessary factor in every sphere
of life, especially at the political level where
decisions and actions affect the entire members
of a nation. Leadership and Development, as
defined by the Advanced Learner's Dictionary, is
power of leading and the gradual growth of
something so that it becomes more advanced
and stronger in a life-development of the people.
This power of leading can be exercised positively
for public good, generally seen as good
leadership, or negatively, which leads to
underdevelopment, depression and conflict which
is bad leadership. When we speak of bad
leadership, it is easy to point to obvious factors
which cause bad leadership like corruption as an
index. A very important factor which is basic to
every practice in government is the decision-
making process. If the process of decision-
making by a leader goes against all the norms of
rationality and dictates of conscience, then such
a leader qualifies to be classified as a bad
leader.
However, one of the things that Mr senator has
been very peeved about recently is the charge
that he is "missing in action". That he has
become a ceremonial senator who turns up when
it suits him but hides when there are serious
problems to be addressed in the society. When
people say that he is missing, they do not
necessarily mean a physical absence, though
that is sometimes without debate. What they
mean fundamentally and philosophically is that
he does not have his finger on the pulse of the
vital organs of concern of the things that matter
most to the people he stands for.
Take, for example, roads and water. Does the
senator notice how often people are blocking
roads or otherwise demonstrating for these basic
necessities of life? Does he notice the raw
sewage that is running on the road in some
inner-city communities and the general filth in
which people have to live? A little attention is
now being given to removing the problems of
education in some communities, but despite the
balancing of the books, the passing of his little
achievements to masses in these communities
live substandard lives and do not see a hopeful
future ahead.
These are the people, the poor and marginalized,
who cannot hope for a bright future ahead. No
amount of pretty speeches from political
platforms can make a dent in their miserable
existence and when he is asked, who do you
represent for? He would say "Them". Who are
them? Mr Senator. They are the people whom
you declare you love, but what is being done
comprehensively to make their lot better. That is
what missing in action means: the giving of
empty promises to people you expect to maintain
you in power, but when power is attained their
status remains while you go about the business
of building a large Cabinet and providing jobs
and positions on boards for the more intellectual
sections of your tribal amphictyony.
What it really comes down to is a lack of respect
for the intrinsic worth of the life of the ordinary
Lafiagians (people of Lafiagi). This is a contempt
that is shared by both sides of the political
divide. They can expect Lafiagi Emirate Youth
Transparent Association (LEYTA) to keep quiet
but we won't because we have aims which are
to regale our township with best performances
during his brief stint in power. This is applicable
to our Honorable Aliyu Bahago; he is not
excluded from the above words.
In conclusively, we want positive changes in our
community and that is what we are fighting for
and we will not stop until our aims are achieved.
We will continue to criticize and fight until we
get what our community lacked.
God bless LEYTA
God bless Lafiagi
God bless Edu
God bless Kwara North
God bless Kwara state
God bless North central
God bless Nigeria. |
Lafiagi Emirate Youth Transparent Association
(LEYTA), meeting with its usual pomp and
dialogue urged the people on tribal-liquor-blind to
be blindless on the issue of our leaders, most
importantly Senator Shaaba Lafiagi.
The senator derided his detractors and
trumpeted the achievements of his tenure so fall
to defend himself. But if you took his talks while
his pronouncements sounded good to you of his
zone, which many us suffering from, then the
failed and broken promises and general
incompetence of his tenure will rest on us, and
we would be wondering as to the state's affairs
and the black future that lies ahead, if there is
no radical change in the way we conduct our
affairs.
Let us be blunt. No amount of concealing the
facts can hide the perilous state in which
Lafiagians (people of Lafiagi) find themselves
today. No amount of placebos delivered at
national conferences can heal the brokenness
and the assorted afflictions that plague the
Lafiagi body into politic. No amount of
disingenuity offered from political platforms can
ease the hopelessness of the Lafiagi's people
and lessen the pain that they felt and have been
feeling since they elected him (Senator Shaaba
Lafiagi).
As successive governments find it harder to dole
out scarce benefits and spoils, more people are
realizing and how much they have been duped
by their political leaders. More are recognizing
that they have been given a four out of ten, and
they are merely being used as means to their
desired ends; ends determined by their political
subordinates. In the midst of all their pains and
sufferings, the senator is peeved at citizens who
dare to criticize him. He is in the typical mode of
the politician who believes that every criticism is
unfair and carries an agenda. If it is not a
gender-based agenda it is class-based. He does
not have to remind us from where he has come
to establish his bonafides as a senator. He has
been around a long time and his credentials are
well-known. But at the twilight of his political
career, there is not a great thing that he can do
in the limited available time to polish those
credentials to make them more acceptable to
the people, because the credentials are nothing
(no achievement). Or are we wrong? We really
wish we can see a rejuvenated and transformed
when Mr Senator taking Lafiagi to a place of
greatness where he has not gone before. But our
hearts tell us short of a political miracle that,
this is not going to happen because we know he
won't do it and he has capacity to do it.
The senator and members of the old guard in
both political friends and home friends are too
wedded to the past; they are too much prisoners
of the failed political achievement that has been
Lafiagi's unfortunate experience since they
articulated. They only see what is wrong with
their systems when they are sitting in the
waiting-lounge hungry to get back into the
driver's seat. But those who wish Lafiagi well
must not ease up on giving just and reasonable
critiques of power and how it is exercised by
those who are given the authority to exercise it.
The senator would be well advised that we that
criticize him do have his best interests at heart.
He and anyone else who occupies the senator's
chair, carries enormous power consequent on the
office they occupy. Speaking for ourselves, we
don't know his personally lifestyles, and so have
no concern about his personal life. But as a
patriotic citizen of Lafiagi, we have to be
concerned with what he does with the power
that has been given to him.
The senator is no doubt aware that many of the
things for which we criticized would never be
said to him positively by his colleagues. Their
fawning loyalty to him is for reasons
aforementioned and often leaves important
things undone. Those in his inner circle are the
quintessential apologists; they will tell him what
he needs to hear. But this soothing palliative
may not be what he needs to hear or represent
what is best for the people of Lafiagi. They do
so because they know that their political
longevities depend on speaking nicely of the
leader in front of him in order to accumulate
their selfishness desires. One would not be
surprised that there are those who wish him
failure by the ways in which they titillate his ego.
He should be very mindful of this and
acknowledged what is leadership is all about.
Leadership is a necessary factor in every sphere
of life, especially at the political level where
decisions and actions affect the entire members
of a nation. Leadership and Development, as
defined by the Advanced Learner's Dictionary, is
power of leading and the gradual growth of
something so that it becomes more advanced
and stronger in a life-development of the people.
This power of leading can be exercised positively
for public good, generally seen as good
leadership, or negatively, which leads to
underdevelopment, depression and conflict which
is bad leadership. When we speak of bad
leadership, it is easy to point to obvious factors
which cause bad leadership like corruption as an
index. A very important factor which is basic to
every practice in government is the decision-
making process. If the process of decision-
making by a leader goes against all the norms of
rationality and dictates of conscience, then such
a leader qualifies to be classified as a bad
leader.
However, one of the things that Mr senator has
been very peeved about recently is the charge
that he is "missing in action". That he has
become a ceremonial senator who turns up when
it suits him but hides when there are serious
problems to be addressed in the society. When
people say that he is missing, they do not
necessarily mean a physical absence, though
that is sometimes without debate. What they
mean fundamentally and philosophically is that
he does not have his finger on the pulse of the
vital organs of concern of the things that matter
most to the people he stands for.
Take, for example, roads and water. Does the
senator notice how often people are blocking
roads or otherwise demonstrating for these basic
necessities of life? Does he notice the raw
sewage that is running on the road in some
inner-city communities and the general filth in
which people have to live? A little attention is
now being given to removing the problems of
education in some communities, but despite the
balancing of the books, the passing of his little
achievements to masses in these communities
live substandard lives and do not see a hopeful
future ahead.
These are the people, the poor and marginalized,
who cannot hope for a bright future ahead. No
amount of pretty speeches from political
platforms can make a dent in their miserable
existence and when he is asked, who do you
represent for? He would say "Them". Who are
them? Mr Senator. They are the people whom
you declare you love, but what is being done
comprehensively to make their lot better. That is
what missing in action means: the giving of
empty promises to people you expect to maintain
you in power, but when power is attained their
status remains while you go about the business
of building a large Cabinet and providing jobs
and positions on boards for the more intellectual
sections of your tribal amphictyony.
What it really comes down to is a lack of respect
for the intrinsic worth of the life of the ordinary
Lafiagians (people of Lafiagi). This is a contempt
that is shared by both sides of the political
divide. They can expect Lafiagi Emirate Youth
Transparent Association (LEYTA) to keep quiet
but we won't because we have aims which are
to regale our township with best performances
during his brief stint in power. This is applicable
to our Honorable Aliyu Bahago; he is not
excluded from the above words.
In conclusively, we want positive changes in our
community and that is what we are fighting for
and we will not stop until our aims are achieved.
We will continue to criticize and fight until we
get what our community lacked.
God bless LEYTA
God bless Lafiagi
God bless Edu
God bless Kwara North
God bless Kwara state
God bless North central
God bless Nigeria. |
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