The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that the earlier oil dries up in the Niger Delta, the better for Nigerians.
El-Rufai, who spoke at the 2017 Founder’s Day Celebration, in memory of Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, which was organised by the Development Policy Centre, said that the discovery of oil, is responsible for the brain drain in Nigeria.
He said: “Having suffered brain drain, how do we attract back our Diaspora and the brain-gain associated with it like the Chinese and Indians have witnessed? These are the questions a distributive mentality around easy oil revenues is dodging.
“The earlier the oil dries up, the better for our national ability to think, be innovative and respect intellect and academic achievement. We get easy money, we do not collect taxes and our taxes are six percent of Gross Domestic Product; that is an average of 21percent. We stopped respecting the intellectuals that we have in our Universities, because we got easy money.”
El-Rufai added that it was important to ensure that federal character policy did not become an enemy of merit in Nigeria.
“It is obvious that Nigeria is severely under-policed, and will require more personnel, intelligence assets, better training, technology and equipment, for its security agencies for the country to be a credible guarantor of security.
“Even if these were to be available, it is also debatable whether a single centralised policing system, structure and staffing for 200 million citizens, is viable in a diverse, multilingual, multi-cultural, and multi-ethnic nation like Nigeria.
“To complement the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, we must have discourse around the imperative of a project dedicated to enabling equal opportunity, so that the circumstances of a citizen’s birth do not prescribe his or her ceiling in life.
“How can we promote a national subscription to meritocracy? How can we ensure that the imperative of reflecting federal character does not become the enemy of merit and quality of appointments? Today, we don’t plan. We don’t have national plan, and if we don’t plan, we are planning to fail.”
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