Abimbola Akosile
4 November 2008
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- Miss Chinwe Anyaeji, National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS), Abuja
- Really, it has to be top-down. Once the top gets it right, it flows down naturally. If the head stinks, the whole entity is garbage. There must be structures in place for the top to be answerable and liable to for rapid development. With genuine and sincere people at the top, the bug catches everyone, hence rapid development. We will get there.
- Engr. Tolulayo Salami, Lulabynt Nigeria Limited, Lagos
- To boost our nation's development, we must first channel the toil of our holoi polloi (masses) to productive and useful end and draw from the know-how of its elite. This synergy will usher development.
- Mr. Ezenwa Nwagwu, coordinator, North-Central, Transparency International in Nigeria (TIN), Abuja
- Let us identify local potentials and develop them with local capacities.
- Mr. Babatope Babalobi, Bread of Life Foundation, Lagos
- I prefer top-down for Nigeria. There is need for our leaders to expunge all forms of vices, ranging from hypocrisy, corruption, tribalism to injustice in readiness for Nigeria to host the world. So let their watchword be, 'do as I do, not only as I say'.
- Ms Kulele Ekekwe, Bonny Island, Rivers State
- I think development cannot be possible where corruption exists, and we all know that corruption exists among our leaders. It is also a known fact that the whole system in our nation is corrupt.
Therefore we need to eradicate the corruption in our system before any meaningful development can take place and the eradication will have to start from the top to the bottom.
- Mr. Tunji Ogundele, Accountant, Virgin Atlantic, Lagos
- The top-down approach is better, with clear pro-people policies.
- Mr. Nankin Bagudu, Ministry of Environment, Jos, Plateau State
- Whether from top-down or from bottom-up, none can successfully tackle the problem of growth and development in Nigeria of today except the spirit of selfishness, corruption, ethnicism, and crass ignorance are banished from the country's psyche. Only Sat Guru Maharaj Ji can give the direction of what to do.
- Mr. Ajisere Alakuli, Warri, Delta State
- Development in this millennium is about creating the enabling environment for every citizen to be what he or she wants to be, within the law. It requires an integrated or all-round approach. That should lift Nigeria if properly managed.
- Mrs. Ada Agina-Ude, Gender and Development Action (GADA), Surulere, Lagos
- Top-down. Our leaders should do away with foreign ideas and concepts in our political, religious and social life. There should be ban on party and election politics. Let us introduce selection by oracles and deities. Everybody will sit up.
- Mr. Emeka Usenu, Gidiland, Ini, Akwa Ibom State
- The better approach is the bottom-up one on how and what to do, because he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches. But our leaders must be sincere and committed to finding lasting solutions.
- Mrs. Augusta Akparanta-Emenogu, Media officer, ActionAid Nigeria, Abuja
- Can we actually have the much expected delivery of good governance in a system that is engulfed with so many evils as, electoral fraud, greed, lack of political will, insincerity and corruption?
What we need is a revolution that must start from the church and mosque people and lastly government. Religious rejuvenation remains the only panacea to the present economic, social and political woes in Nigeria. Concern for the citizenry and development can only come from a heart that love his neighbour as himself and fear of God.
- Mr. Aigbe Joachim, President, Save Africa on Environment by Empowerment (SAEEM), Lagos
- Nigerian leadership is drawn from various sub-system of the society: family, religious groups, institutions, associations, societies, peer groups, clubs, workplaces, culture, traditions and political parties.
Let these components wake-up to their responsibilities, upholding the specifications of the national anthem, and ensuring abiding commitment to state laws and constitutional provisions in the fear of God. Then government will only respond to the gesture and yearnings of the citizens. Governments at all levels would have no pressure in managing the affairs of the nation.
- Mr. Eigbiremhon Israel, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
- Generally, a bottom-up participatory development is superior to top-down. Process matters to development and the people who wear the shoes know where it pinches. I always advocated for ward level flexible development.
However we must not romanticise bottom-up approach. Local people may be consumed by their locale so much that they may lose sight of the big picture.
- Dr. Kole Shettima, Africa Country Director, MacArthur Foundation, Abuja
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