“Keke NAPEP: FG to sue contractor”
NAPEP is a failure and will continue to fail under the leadership of a people with no idea of strategic thinking or people who do not understand the need for accountability and reporting. Magnus Kpakol’s reason for distributing the useless tricycles is that it will create jobs for area boys. Is that really true? I fault his thinking on this, reason being that, if a govt wants to create jobs for unemployed area boys, research and planning is required. I certainly believe, Magnus never carried out a research, otherwise, what value is a tricycle to the Nigeria transportation system. Absolutely zero! I was in lagos in 2002 and because I was in some much hurry to catch my transport back to Port Harcourt, I took the tricyle with one set of computer from Otigba. It was completely hopeless. We couldn’t get out of the traffic jam. The traffic jams or ‘go slows’ in Lagos, Port harcourt and many other Nigeria cities, can be so bad that even the ‘Okadas’ sometimes can not find a way around talkless of the Magnus Kpakol’s keke NAPEP which is probably three times the width of a motor bike. So why will anybody get on these tricylces?
If you want youth out of the streets, set up functional industries and employ these youths in the industries. This way, they have a sense of being away from the street, and the products from the industries will have positive effect on the economy. There are several areas where the FG can through its agencies invest huge funds to stimulate growth and employment but what do we see, old timers using nineteenth century ideas in the twenty first century.
The FG should know that agencies play a very specific and important role in moving a country forward as evident in most developed and successful devloping countries. However, in the case of Nigeria, this is not so, because of the political appointment of people without the right qualifications and also the FG's lack of checks and demand of accountability from these agencies.
