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By Gloria Onyishi
The former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili has proposed positive disruption in Nigeria economy to take the country out of the lowest equilibrium trap in governance as well as save Nigeria from economic failure.
Ezekwesili made the proposition in Enugu during African heritage institution, Big Idea Podium; themed, Nigeria: The Economics of Failure, held at the Afri-Heritage Conference Hall.
According to Ezekwesili, there is urgent need to redirect the resources being invested in political discourse to addressing economic structure and economic inequalities, urging Nigerians to “either fight the economic failure now and win it regardless of their ethnicity and politics or our people will perish in large number.”
She further said that the major problem facing Nigeria is that “our failure as a country has been normalize but there is action worse than ignoring the problem, it is futile attempt to solve it at the same equilibrium that created it”.
“Nigeria face technical problem as much as it face government failure. Our government failure to do the right things that will make our country look like other countries due to the fact that Nigeria’s government has not lived up to the basic agreed of their mission and when the government failed to live up to their responsibility persistently the fragile state index classifies them as a fragile state. That was why Nigeria was rated one hundred and one point three of fragile state in the world in 2017”.
Ezekwesili proclaimed that economics failure of Nigeria should compel Nigerians to ask very painful questions “concerning their country’s success. It is time for citizens to organize a positive action that can produce effective success. We must learn to organize dissatisfaction effectively concerning our failure and not just view it as normal”.
She opined that the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dream.
In the same vein, one of the discussants, Prof. Okey Ibeanu said the major limitation of the ruling class is profound inability to implement and enforce rule. “Nigeria failure should not be located in economics rather in political economy”, he said
Another discussant, David Ukabo also stated that Nigeria has not be lacking big idea but the problem is how to transform the big idea into implementable action.
