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30 May 2012 By Auwal Shehu A
traditional axiom has it that, education/ knowledge is
only useful when is put to use. Not only does this
formed part of daily expression but it have gone far
to form part of some institution of learning's
identified logo. Without knowledge man would have been
reduced to a docile animal but our early species
struggled to master their environments in an effort to
elude poverty and existed at relative level of
happiness. The
evil associated with poverty predated our contemporary
analysis hence it was largely accountable to major of
the problems between man and his surroundings ever
since. It is a situation where a living man and his
family are confronted with lack, lack and lack
reflected in a vicious circle. Internationally it is
adjudged to be a lamentable living style below what 2
American dollars can buy. Poverty is as dynamic as
its hydra headed products. Our present problems linked
to poverty are beyond expression and comprehension
with unimaginable deviancies among young and adult,
women and men, strong and weak.
Despite the fact that associated poverty carried some
associated similarities locally and internationally
there existed a differing measure of yard stick.
Internationally the combinations of major African
nations are rated as most devastated while part of
Asia and North American countries follows. Locally in
Nigeria Northern region is characterized as more
ravaged compared to the other parts of the country.
Even though this statistic remain a subject to
academic discuss the surfacing facts indicated that
majority of the street beggars in all nook and cranny
of the country hailed from that unfortunate part.
Another fact to angle this analysis is the fact that
other parts of the country especially the West and
South cashed immensely from water ways activities on
one hand and derived an advantage super-proportionally
from natural deposit of Oil in their places. The
administration of knowledge in tapping the benefit of
both Oil and water ways in the West & South is what
sustained their usage to both individuals and the
nation at large, to the extent that it is safe to
declare that the two economic sectors contributed for
the fiscal survival of the country. In spite of their
natural deposition within these regions both Oil and
Water ways are subject to pollution and extinction due
to over consumption. Even though this is yet, but the
over bearing concentration on these economic outlets
without planning for alternatives is the most
dangerous aspect of our leaders often blinded in the
present, caring less to what the future holds. Not
only will the alternative outlets like farming, soil
minerals and other Oil deposits now buried in the
North help the fiscal level of the country but will
equally help in addressing the local yet daily
problems of those people settled near such deposits as
expressed in other parts of the country. This is how
the belligerence grip of poverty can be assuaged. Based
on these potentials that are found in the Northern
Part of this country and what they portends to yield
it is imperative on the regional Governors to devise a
collective measure in making sure that the art of
governance is beyond over invoicing on supplies and
buildings. They should spear head a move that will
compel the central government to explore such deposit.
That can as well boost their morale and give them the
power of negotiation on issues like zoning and
resources distribution. The expectation of democracy
from the voters is a chance in living style, a change
that will enriches them with tools to fight poverty.
Amongst many of the 19 northern states few governors
understood the unequal approach to fight poverty as
necessary. This includes the introduction of a
mechanized farming in Kwara state and the Soil mineral
exploration in part of Kebbi. The northern region's
poverty is such unattended to that even with PhD's,
some governors discharges in similar fashion (what
otherwise would have been a case-to-copy), reducing
the art of governance only beneficial to their kin and
associates. But modern governing deserves dynamic
approach away from the old attitudinal discharges that
are limited to constructions and party domination. It
should be an all encompassing administration with
attainable goals to create economic opening for all
and sundry. My
geopolitical exposure within the Northern part of the
country is not rich to equip me with what a particular
governor suppose to encourage in respect of what
nature has endowed his state with but all the northern
State governors are either devoid of any idea to
transform the economic activities and usher in
measures to guarantee sustainable earnings for the
people or they are too engaged in fighting unpopular
war against the collective voice of the Northern
People on the apparent marginalization visited unto
them by the present crop of leaders in the centre and
the P.D.P. They suppose to employ the service of experts to
ascertain the potentials of their respective state.
This remains the only solution to the teeming masses
that were schemed out by pockets of blind followers
sticking to the governors. The experts can consult,
experiment, explore, and device a profitable way out
in reducing poverty from the untapped resources abound
yet buried. |
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