Defining Circumstances of Birth and Affirmative Action in the Nigerian Politics. AUGUST 24, 2022

What you're seeing in the picture is symbolic of the social inequality that Quota Systems was designed to address or eliminate, but the policy has been so corrupted that we are now populating our corridors of power with a barely literate and incompetent workforce.

For instance, how can you explain or justify the recruitment of candidates who cannot communicate coherently or write a simple sentence in the English Language into our Armed Forces and the Police Force?

There is too much waste going on in the educational sector at most of the states and local government councils in the North. You cannot reconcile the huge gaps in High School graduation rates between states in the two regions when matched with the educational funds going to the various states.

As a result of the age-old Boko haram culture in most of the states in the North, the educational allocation is spent on the fewer percentage that wants or appreciates the values of western education. The rest are at the mercy of Imams and the teachers they don't know. And they have to walk the streets and beg to survive.

However, during recruitment exercises for Federal Government jobs, Armed Forces, and the Police Force, it's anything that goes, because they have to meet their quota. It's the pool of the forgotten and predominantly illiterate majority at the stage of adolescence that becomes the recruitment reservoir.

Like it or not, these states must satisfy their quota. Who they picked is none of your business. That's the Nigerian tragedy, evading public debate.

Our GDP-related problems are not strictly speaking, economically defined, but political, cultural, and tribalism made. So, each time I watch them discussing micro this and macro that at conferences and seminars, I always shake my head. We don't have a nation. We must accept that reality first. People are occupying positions they don't have the training to occupy.

It's either these experts are ignorant of the make of our predicaments or they are simply concerned about the next Federal Government job or contract, thus evading dwelling on the truth. Today, the repercussions of our misfits-misfits culture are reverberating nationwide. And that's the reason I'm not afraid to write. Because only the truth, confronting the truth can save Nigeria.