@yaygha One thing is certain, our 1.4kg brain cannot fully comprehend God.
That says more about us than it does about Him and perhaps explains why we so fiercely cling to the shrine of our own perspective.
The flaw in this is assuming things would somehow have stayed the same without the reforms.
You’re comparing today’s hardship to a past that wasn’t sustainable. The real question is not “are things hard now?” but “what would the consequences have been if nothing changed?”
Finance folks defending policies that only work on paper while their quality of life keeps declining just to maintain some fake sense of intellectual superiority. If the economics never translates to real life, what does that tell you, Einstein?
@igboonaija3 He assumes tomorrow is promised, that his heart will stay soft enough to turn, and that the habits won't quietly own him before he gets there.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — Galatians 6:7
Nigeria already has most of the transparency infrastructure it needs.
OAGF publishes. BudgIT exists. NEITI audits. The CBN publishes data. The IPPIS exists. The TSA exists. GIFMIS exists.
OAGF: the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, which keeps the books and publishes federal financial statements.
BudgIT: a civic tech organization that translates budget data into accessible dashboards and reports for the public.
NEITI: the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which audits oil, gas, and solid-minerals revenues against what’s actually remitted to government.
CBN: the Central Bank of Nigeria, which publishes macroeconomic, monetary, and external-sector data.
IPPIS: the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, the federal payroll platform built to eliminate ghost workers and standardize remuneration.
TSA: the Treasury Single Account, which consolidates federal government revenue into a single CBN-held account instead of scattered MDA accounts.
GIFMIS: the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, the platform used to plan, execute, and report on the federal budget.
Between them, almost everything you’d want to know about how public money moves is already recorded somewhere. The issue is that seeing the numbers and being able to act on them are two different things.
What’s missing is consequence. Legislators see the numbers and don’t act. Citizens see the numbers and don’t act.
@BlehisBack Politics by nature isn't pure. It demands negotiations and compromises. In Nigeria, it's about survival not ideals. It's expensive to emerge as a Presidential candidate (nomination/delegates, media, mobilisation, logistics etc.) So, it favours familiar recycled politicians.