Passivism in Government

When Lagos was rendered cash-strapped by the antics of the bellicose OBJ and was beginning to run short of the financial capacity to meet her responsibilities, her handlers woke up. Passive governance long forgotten, the State today runs on revenue generated internally and on allocations from the leaking centre.

Had push not become shove, perchance the State could've been one of those on the periphery of liquidation.

Democracy is framed for action. As bad as passive followership that complacently allows the government act as it pleases is, there's no worse consequence like passive governance. A government that goes on vacation because it is breastfed by the mothering central government is worse than no-government at all. I know, I know, I'm hyperbolic like that.

The evilest scenario in this failure of leadership is the mortgaging of people's lives. What awful conditions will staff (and their dependents) of institutions and organs of these diseased governments be in, only God can fully know. A backlog of nonpayments stretching to 10 months (in some cases) is the devilry that cannot be comprehended when juxtaposed by the contrasting fortunes of the family and friends of the leadership of these States. THEY GET PAID. While they go to bed with full bellies, their staff cannot remember the last time they constipated.

There's no comparing such malignant monstrosity. If there's an example of a governor who allegedly uses his unaudited security votes to pay for the education of the State's students in tertiary institutions, who says governors in these States about to go belly-up couldn't have engineered some method to at least ease the financial desperation of their staff? Even if it meant paying them partly? (After all, at all at all naim bad pass, kwo?) Or we should all probably wait until the staff and their hungry, forlorn family members start dropping off dead. One after the other?

Now, without OBJ's involvement, these ratchet States have come to the climate that pervaded in Lagos when her handlers shook off their passivity. It's a call to action. A call to use that latent grey matter in all of its 50 shades. It's time to change. To get resourceful enough to utilise resources lying fallow in these here States. And what better time than now?

#AsAnAside
Pretty much the same way I think of what's happening in the oil sector. Let it go awry. When it's gone past bad, then passivity can be jettisoned for the action democracy demands. From the electorate. And from the elected.

Should they, picked to make things better, not so do, then, action must be taken for their CHANGE.

That be the mantra after all.

CHANGE.