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Former Minister of Health, Prof. Adenike Grange, yesterday said her sudden exit was "due to recent events" in the ministry, but maintained that while she accepted responsibility for what happened during her brief tenure, she was not accepting guilt since she was not the chief accounting officer of the ministry.
While one cannot help but commend the professionalism and courage of Prof. Grange, as with overwhelming concern for her image and posterity of her name resigned. However, one must not lose sight of bigger questions raised by the imbroglio, like several others in all ministries.
How long would we continue to run (pack our bags)from responsibilities that so bewilder and bedevil us? Should she & others in her shoes not commit to fight this ill that has made us the "scar of the world"? Our poverty is legendary, corruption unequalled yet our wealth immense.
We must all be genuinely and collectively pained that darkness (corruption, holliganism, thuggery, arson, rigging, poverty etc.) succeeds in chasing and cowing us from light to shadows.
While other nations like China and India, with whom we were compared just yesterday are busy laying strategic foundations for generations yet unborn; thier successes almost becoming a concern to the imperial west; we are busy forming solidarity groups, ganing fame in fradulence & internet crime, seeking aids and grants, recycling captains that wrecked our Nigerian ship; generally becoming an embarassment to the world.
Can't we see? Can't we learn? It is unfortunate that the path we so doggedly choose, was the same chosen since the inception of this country and it has led us nowhere but downhill. Oh, we seek men, men of valiance, courage and vision!!!
Gbenga writes from UK
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