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How Government Works - Your Role Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by ibghandi...., Nigeria Apr 11, 2007
Peace & Conflict   Opinions

  

How Government Works – Your Role

As the Sun prepares to rise in Nigeria with the election of various individuals into various political offices , Nigerians once again are faced with the chance to vote into offices individuals they desire to rule them in the next four years. The need for this massive motivation of Nigerian people to voting is imperative at this time when various developmental challenges face the country.

Governance in its raw form is ensuring that basic services are made available for the people and laws and procedures to keep institutions running effectively are made and enforced. It is therefore true that government works well when there are Good Institutions, Adequate funding to keep the institutions running, skilled workers to drive the institutions and finally good rules and procedures guiding the conducts and activities of individuals within the institutions.

It is a known fact in the country presently, we lack very sound institutions and this has been one of the various developmental challenges facing the country. Over the years, I have listened to various experts talk about the place of institutions in the development of a nation and as always there conclusion is that Good Institutions drive the growth of the country and if sustained over a period, it brings about the required development.

Governance problems actually arise when institutions are corrupt, inefficient, unresponsive, secretive and inequitable. Its is also imperative to note that these are all end products of sick institutions, low salaries, favoritism and nepotism on the part of rulers, outdated systems and procedures in managing finance, recording and maintenance of records.

According to the World Bank, research team that developed, a set of guides to measure governance at country levels. It was posited that the input of the citizenry in the elections and electoral processes generally, how accountable the political office holders are to the electorates, how stable the government is and amount of violence in a country determines how a government is put in place. Government effectiveness and burden of doing business by government regulations also determines how well the government can make and implement sound policies while Rule of law and corruption on the other hand will determines how much respect people will have for government.

Having understood how all these issues affect one another, Good Governance then means institutions of government are Accountable, responsive, transparent and efficient.

All this indicators of good governance are directly embedded within the principles of democracy, which is actually to foster interaction between all segments of the society in the governance process.

Therefore, there is a need for Nigerians to take elections very seriously as democracy actually requires popular participation by all in the governance process. Democracy gives you the chance to have a say in your own governance and how your resources are managed.

The man who shows fear is weak and he is a slave. The system presently might be scary and frightening, but sitting back or “saving our head” like we say does not help us rather, its extending our pains and cries.

This is another chance to contributing to the effectiveness of the system and the electoral institution, LETS GET IT RIGHT.

VOTE NOW.






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Am Sanusi Ibraheem, an independent Development Researcher and a graduate of Management Science.

My areas of research are in Governance - Economic, corporate, political and social. As a young persona myself, issues of youth development and their participation in governance processes is of major concern to me and i presently serve as the Acting Executive Director of The Intellectual Group, Nigeria.

My writings are basically towards young people, governance, morals and ethics and more often than not issues that requires public opinion.
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