Nigeria: The Limits of 'Capacity Building'

20 June 2008

editorial

Abuja — One of the most bizarre yet very revealing stories about why politics and administration in our country hardly yield 'development dividends' to the real people of Nigeria, came forth from Benue State recently.

According to the story, having sent the wives of the 28 male members of the Benue State House of Assembly on various courses to 'build their capacities' to enable them to cope, presumably with the sheer rigours of being legislators' wives and to support their husbands in the great legislative challenges facing them, the leadership of the House was left in a quandary about what to do about the case of the husband of the only female member of the House.

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