DEALING WITH EQUITY…
There can never be transparency in the distribution of justice neither will our scarce resources ever be equitably distributed, until there is a proper identification and documentation of every human person called Nigerian with a probable address.
If human beings can manipulate what is real, true and actual, what then happens when there are no real facts and figures? This is typically the case of our motherland. It’s either it was founded on lies right from the beginning or we have always had thieves as leaders from the beginning. For there is no way a tree without a good tap root can survive in the desert for long.
Accountability is a concept that represents transparency, because it involves being answerable to the people or groups of people to whom the representation is due. It is a way through which our leaders are expected to take responsibility for their actions or inactions. It is a way through which leaders are meant to bear the liabilities of their failure or inabilities. It will only remain a concept until it is well translated into actuality where we are able to work out the modalities through which every Nigerian’s true and authentic information is captured in reality.
Over the years, our leaders have capitalised on the absence of a unified authentic identification information to misrepresent or even completely negelect or socially exclude many from their rights to access resources and opportunities thereby making the vulnerable even more vulnerable.
The issue of an authentic national identification system has lingered for too long and the way it’s going cannot guarantee the complete capturing of every human person called Nigerian because even the people in the cities are having a hard time accessing the centres for registration, how much more will the people in the rural area who first and foremost may have no idea of what is happening or even what it is all about? How much longer will the aged, the disabled, the children, the displaced and those in the war torn zones have to suffer continous exclusion from their rights? It’s painful how the focus of leaders is mostly centred on the urban areas while the rural communities are most times marginalised as though they aren’t part of the whole… It is little wonder then that the pressure of rural urban immigration will never stop because there is little or no attention paid to these places where most of the weak and vulnerable reside.
The government’s inability to create a system that effectively works for the actualization of an authentic identification system for every Nigerian from the rural to the urban to the diaspora, will continue to give room for corrupt practices. Numbers will continually be inflated or deflated to suit the selfish motives of the actionable agencies and politicians whose only interests remains the propagation and protection of their wealth, at the detriment of the general whole .
Our leaders therefore, will continue to loot and steal from one administration to another because, there has always been no authentic proof of what they did, with what, neither can there ever be a sincere and actual confirmation of true and real beneficiaries of their claims because whatever exsisted or exsist now as a data base is far from the real number of Nigerians yet to be captured by any form of identification system.
