Former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi has revealed why corruption and nepotism would continue to thrive in the country.
Speaking at a webinar on Friday, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said the country will continue to experience bad leadership if incompetent and greedy leaders occupy such positions.
According to Sanusi, corruption and nepotism would also continue to hinder the country’s progress and the people will suffer for it.
He noted that the best brains from the different parts of the country should be appointed or elected into public office and not those that are selfish.
He said, “Morally and religiously speaking, corruption is a problem. But let us look at it from the angle of economics and we (would) begin to understand that it is not just the corruption itself but the type of corruption.
“Part of the problem we have is incompetence and that is why I keep saying we must pay attention to merit. We have a system called Federal Character and I believe we should have Nigerians from all over the country in public office, but all those Nigerians must be people that are competent. There must be a merit test; a competence test.
“For me, I think the root of corruption is when we begin to de-emphasise merit, competence and performance and so long as we don’t bring the best in this country to do the job and hold them to account, we won’t go anywhere.
“The worst form of corruption we have in this country is nepotism; when people get into positions by virtue of personal loyalty, friendship and who they know, rather than what they can actually deliver by virtue of their competence for that office. We need people who can deliver for this country, I mean the majority.”
Personally I do pick up relevance the points concerning your views in various write ups put forward to public. But I also observed the mess we have today which is in continuous is because the north ofcourse
from where you come ,,the leaders (elders and elites) are far from seeing and reasoning with these realities on the ground.