Now, The Time to Govern, GEJ

The President's inauguration speech would have been one of the best presidential inauguration speeches if not for the timing. This speech would appropriately befit a first presidential speech following the independence of Nigeria when hopes and aspirations of Nigerian would have been understandably high. Or perhaps the president’s speech is a futuristic presidential speech delivered too early. The President's speech is inspirational and motivational as against revolutionary, reactionary and policy blunt speech the president ought to have delivered. With its enormous natural resources and human capital Nigeria is among the 50 least developed countries in the world. Underdevelopment in Nigeria and almost all Nigerian ills are as result of public corruption and lack of rule of law. These two evils is killing and tearing Nigeria into pieces yet the president’s speech treaded lightly on corruption and said virtually nothing about inequality of the citizenry before the law. Until the criminals masked as public officials are made to understand that they are answerable to the law of the land just as ordinary citizens are these criminals will continue to act with impunity in their looting of public coffer. Unless past and present criminals veiled as public servants are brought before the law for their crimes against the state and the people future public officials will tread the route of the former, the route of the criminally corrupt.

Bawomanh