When you listen to many Nigerians, it becomes clear that a lot of us don’t know which level of government is responsible for what. We have become used to blaming whoever is President, whether or not the issue falls under the Federal Government.
When people hear that 18.3 million children are out of school, the first reaction is often, “Yet the President is building a coastal highway.” When we see reports of poorly equipped primary healthcare centres, we say, “Yet the President is renovating airports.”
The reality is that basic education, primary healthcare and many basic public services are constitutionally the responsibility of state and local governments, even though the Federal Government also supports them through funding and national programmes.
Every four years, we elect governors and local government chairmen with these responsibilities in mind. Yet when many of them fail to deliver, we often shift the blame entirely to the President, who has limited constitutional powers to directly run schools, primary healthcare centres or local councils across the country.
A nation that wants better governance must also demand accountability from the level of government actually responsible for delivering each public service.
Children don’t experience their parents the same way. It’s a hard truth both parents and kids struggle to accept.
One might be born when you’re in love, another when you’re barely holding it together.
One arrives during struggle, another after your breakthrough.
Each will meet a different version of you.
Each will walk away with a different story about who you were.
And turn out differently because of it.
You start to wonder, What did I do wrong with this one?
Maybe you didn’t do anything wrong.
Sometimes… you just didn’t do.
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