Analyst flays absence of service in politics | The Guardian Nigeria Information

A political affairs analyst, Azubuike Ihemeje, has lamented that politicians now not interact in politics with the curiosity of the general public at coronary heart.

Ihemeje, a lawyer, mentioned politics, ordinarily, ought to be a method of rendering public service. However in Nigeria, it has been diminished to the curiosity of people or teams of politicians, who gang as much as hijack energy solely for his or her private financial survival.

He additionally accused politicians of distorting and destroying core ideas of politics.

Ihemeje made this recognized whereas showing as a visitor throughout a roundtable dialogue for the 2023 election in Port Harcourt, yesterday.

He burdened that public service is any service meant to deal with particular wants of a given society or nation, and is clearly opposed to private pursuits or particular person ambitions.

He famous: “Through the years, these politicians have impoverished the plenty with unemployment and joblessness; systematically destroying the financial powers of the personal sector. They, thereby, make authorities jobs, connections, contracts, and every little thing round authorities companies develop into closely engaging and indispensable in folks’s lives.”

“Politics and authorities have develop into the main income for folks in Nigeria. Individuals’s wealth is now calibrated by the kind of political workplace they occupy or are linked with.”

He known as on the personal sector to rise as much as its position of using the best variety of folks, with the intention of constructing political jobs unattractive, at the same time as he expressed optimism that the nation can be restored of its core values.

He mentioned: “To compound the issue, they hold recruiting increasingly more folks into politics with the prospects of sharing the loots with them later. Elsewhere, the personal sectors are the very best employers of labor, whereas authorities jobs are much less and fewer engaging. However in Nigeria, authorities jobs have develop into goldmines.”

Ihemeje added: “Since politics has grew to become the one reliable means of monetary liberation, each particular person now scrambles to slave for a political social gathering, chief or system. Actual freedom of alternative has been diametrically circumscribed by the dictates of political leanings. Most individuals dare not make any knowledgeable choices once more, besides that which has been decided by their political overlords.

“Nigerian politics is so peculiarly skewed in direction of authorities dependency, largely as a result of the federal government itself doesn’t must assume to boost cash attributable to abundance of pure assets.”

“Politicians promote oil on the worldwide market and share the cash throughout the a number of political places of work they’ve created for themselves and their supporters. That’s why politicians on this half are grossly awful, unimaginative, and void of any innovation to unravel issues.”