Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State,
has said that the menace of the dreaded Boko Haram sect could be stopped
in two months, only if visionary and efficient leadership is encouraged
at the highest level of power in Nigeria.
Okorocha, stated this on Friday, during a
dinner he organised for media executives and nominees from across the
country, who were in Owerri for the Nigeria Media Merit Award 2014,
noted that the problem had remained intractable because some people were
benefiting from fighting the insurgents.However, he said no president
of Nigeria had plans to fail in governance, noting that leaders of the
country since independence never had bad intentions.
Chief Rochas blamed the mrnace on
leaders’ inappropriate usage of both the human and material resources,
which he said also, contributed to government’s inability to tackle
insurgencies in the country. “No nation is poor in terms of human and
material resources, the problem has always been about leadership,” he
said.
Okorocha advocated a bottom-up approach
to power, stating that this is what will reduce excessive power of the
president which hinders power distribution among the federating
units.“The president is too powerful while the masses continue to
suffer. We need leaders who can give jobs to the people. Vision is very
important to surmount most of the challenges facing the country, this is
why my administration placed great premium on education by making it
free from primary to university levels.”
He, however, said that decentralisation of power was germane to solving the challenges facing the country.
The Imo governor, also challenged
journalists to rise up to the challenges of their profession, admonished
them to ask political leaders about their activities in government,
noting that “the media profession has lost the culture of investigative
journalism.”
“I’ve always waited for an opportunity to
confront journalists on their role in the leadership question and the
need for the fourth estate of the realm to engender good governance by
tasking would-be leaders on plans they have for Nigeria,” Okorocha said.
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