By Florence Israel, Abuja.
“The next level is the academic institutions which the political dealership also destroyed because if the products of the schools must come out with skills and knowledge, they would challenge the status quo, hence the political class must destroy education so that everybody will go to school and come out without any knowledge and become a frustrated graduate and when this happens, you will go for any kind of job, anything that will give you money, including corruption,” Professor Azeez said at the induction ceremony.
The Honourable Minister for Communications, Barrister Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, was inducted into the West African Society for Communications and Administration (WASCA), at the weekend.
At an induction ceremony, held at the Bolton White Hotels in Abuja, during the 2017 Professional/Induction Lecture of the body, the Minister, represented by his wife, Hajia Ameenah Adebayo Shittu, was honoured as a Fellow of the prestigious West African Society for Communications and Administration thereby adding to his several achievements another feather of an “Fsca”.
Speaking at the occasion, Professor Taofiq Adeshina Azeez of the University of Abuja, who was the guest lecturer, spoke extensively on the barriers hindering sound leadership and national development in Nigeria while on the theme, “Building, Nurturing and Sustaining Sound Leadership for National Development.”
According to Professor Azeez, only politics and not leadership is experienced in Nigeria.
“Our children are already aware that the easiest way to steal is to become a politician. So where are we starting from?” He asked, adding that , “A child is already making up his mind to become a thief, a legal and celebrated thief, a thief that will be honoured by all.”
He said further that, “In Nigeria we always think of political leadership and political leadership does not exist because there is no leadership in politics. Politics, especially in democracy cannot produce leadership, it can only produce dealership and this is due to the fundamental dialectic contradiction,” he explained.
The university don also noted that the political class had destroyed the educational sector that is supposed to produce sound leadership in the nation.
“The next level is the academic institutions which the political dealership also destroyed because if the products of the schools must come out with skills and knowledge, they would challenge the status quo, hence the political class must destroy education so that everybody will go to school and come out without any knowledge and become a frustrated graduate and when this happens, you will go for any kind of job, anything that will give you money, including corruption.”
Also honoured as a Fellow with the Minister at the induction ceremony was former First Lady of Kogi State, Ambassador Aisha Audu-Emeje, who is also a United Nations Ambassador, among others.
