A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said that all Nigerians must be part of problem solving, stating that no single administration can solve all the problems bedeviling the country.
Ezekwesili, who doubles as convener of FixPolitics, and Founder ofSchool of Politics, Policy and Governance (SPPG) explained that citizens must be part of the process of solving problems in society.
She stated this when her team at Human Capital Africa (HCA), an accountability initiative paid a visit to Not Forgotten Initiative School, a non-profit school set up for the sole purpose of providing free access to education in Abuja on Thursday.
The visit was part of activities to mark Ezekwesili’s 60th birthday and saw HCA donating a sum of two million naira and adopting the school for further intervention programmes.
She applauded the founder of the school, Tosin Adeniyi, for coming up with the initiative as part of efforts to reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria, she lamented that the classic failure in governance suggests that citizens must also play their own role in developing the society.
“There is a classic failure in governance that creates the kind of problems and situations we have in the areas of delivery of basic services like education and health to our citizens.
“But then there is also the part where this initiative does not necessarily have to be because of the failure of government.
“It is rather an initiative where citizens are showing that they can be contributors to solving society’s multiple needs.
“The kinds of needs that we have are humongous, that even the best government acting alone would not be able to solve all of them.
Credit: Daily Sun