A former Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that Nigeria is a country without
consequences, adding that citizens and voters have failed to hold politicians
and leaders accountable for their actions and policies.
Amaechi said that he knows
politicians who have suddenly turned billionaires few months after taking up
political positions.
Amaechi who is also a former
governor of Rivers State stated this during a panel session at the fifth
edition of The Nigeria Symposium For Young and Emerging Leaders held in Lagos
on Friday.
Speaking on ineffective policies
and extreme poverty, Amaechi explained that the country’s wealth has been in
the pocket of an influential few and called for politicians to invest in
infrastructure in order to create jobs and reduce crime.
“I know politicians who have
suddenly become billionaires, and this is the money that should have been used
to build roads and provide amenities that could have been used to improve the
lives of citizens. Our politicians have to be clear on how they intend to lift
people out of poverty,” he said.
Also commenting on citizen
participation, a former presidential candidate, KOWA, Professor Remi Shonaiya,
added,“We have to educate ourselves in order to become more active, and we have
to begin to consider the greater good in our decisions.
“Most of us don’t care about what
is happening in the House of Assembly, we are much more concerned about
ourselves. The focus has to be on the people, not the government. But we as the
people also have to make sure that we hold our leaders accountable to us.
There’s too much personal style in the way we practice politics in the
country,” said Professor Shonaiya.
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