Good People, over the last three months, no person has sent me a note that he/she was having problems with getting a Nigerian passport. Simply, we can assume that the government has fixed this friction. I want to publicly commend the government for demonstrating that we can deliver services at a high level.
To the minister of Interior, we #salute. He delivered as promised: “The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has stated that the clearance of all passport backlogs should not exceed two weeks, emphasizing that there is no justification for passport delays in Nigeria.” He gets A on that.
You see, the nation can promise and deliver. If not for the mindless floating of Naira and the removal of fuel subsidy before any substantive economic team was in place, the current paralysis would not be happening. I mean if the president just waited to have read and digested Nigeria’s economic status, from the predecessor, and built models via a standby economic team, before those two policies were pushed, the mess we’re today would have been avoided.
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But because he acted on an impulse without any strategic planning, the men and women who were later hired as ministers have been tasked to clean things up. That is a lesson for Nigeria and we must ensure such does not happen in the future.
That noted, we should commend the team for the efforts on the passports. It does mean we still have the capacity to deliver services.
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has stated that the clearance of all passport backlogs should not exceed two weeks, emphasizing that there is no justification for passport delays in Nigeria.
Tunji-Ojo, who made the statement during a live appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday, added that the delay around fresh passport issuance and renewal fuels corruption in the sector.
The newly-appointed Minister of Interior inherited a backlog of issues, including scarcity of passport notes, from his predecessor Rauf Aregbesola. But he said clearing all backlogs shouldn’t take more than two weeks.
Good People, over the last three months, no person has sent me a note that he/she was having problems with getting a Nigerian passport. Simply, we can assume that the government has fixed this friction. I want to publicly commend the government for demonstrating that we can… pic.twitter.com/vUc5zVwUt9
— Ndubuisi Ekekwe (@ndekekwe) March 9, 2024
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What was done differently? Was a new law created or brand new people hired in NIS? Someday we will get ONE man who will fix Nigeria. All you who think that all Nigerians must be good before Nigeria can be fixed obviously do not understand leadership. For now you are free to blame the Constitution, the ‘system’, the ‘cabal’, and everything else under the sun.
Until you are done making excuses for incompetence and ineptitude, you will never know that you just need one great man (not thousands) to get Nigeria working. Just continue explaining away malfeasance and gross bad behaviour. People who were born in sin and dwell in sin may never know what a righteous and pure heart is made of.
A nation of excuses.