18/10/2020
According to Aisha Yesufu, For us to truly build a nation where peace and Justice shall reign in fulfillment of the second stanza of our national anthem, we must work to make sure Nigeria becomes a country where the son/daughter of a nobody becomes somebody without knowing anybody. The only thing holding us from achieving that is;
WE ARE ALL SARS.
Young people raised about N25m for protest and protesters are testifying to the impact of the disbursed fund on food and medical supplies, yet the federal government allegedly disbursed N600bn as COVID-19 palliative and no single Nigerian benefited.
Rotimi IDOWU, (best graduate of OAU Law Class of 1990) said recently, Leadership confers a responsibility to be above board. It is a calling. A calling to be different, by whatever means possible. It could be by training, counsel, coaching, etc. IF YOU CANNOT LEAD BY EXAMPLE, DO NOT ACCEPT LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY!!!!
Even if the whole society is bad, and it is the pool from where our leaders are chosen, it still does not excuse bad leadership.
To say that leaders cannot be different because they are from a rotten society begs the true definition of leadership.
So we should remember that when we collect money for a job or road construction and refuse to execute the job which eventually leads to the death of innocent people, or as a civil servant you collect kickbacks and over invoice contract papers thereby making it impossible to execute other jobs, you are worse than SARS.
As a politician, be you Senator, Honourable or unable member, President, Governor or just Chairman or councilor, and your salaries and allowances are 100 times more than that of the people you represent, yet you still circumvent the process to enable you steal from public purse. There’s no difference between you and the gun throttling SARS.
As a lawyer or Judge when you collect money to trade off judgements and grant electoral victory to someone rejected at the poll, or make someone who didn’t participate in the election process a Governor, President, Senator or Law maker, and he eventually takes decision that will affect thousands of people.