ThisDay· 1h ago· 1 min read
By Mobolaji Sanusi
Precisely on September 7, 2023, in faraway India, President Bola Tinubu, GCFR, made a profound statement with a penetrating effect on our collective psyche as a nation. He said: “We are not poor in knowledge. We are not poor in human resources. We are only poor in management and leadership.” This statement exposes our collective guilt as partakers in the mismanagement of our commonwealth, human resources, and knowledge endowment.
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, made a classification depicting an understanding of why a nation can be poor in “management and leadership.” This student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle aptly captured societal men and their cherished values when he said: “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, and lovers of gain.” Obviously, the problems bedeviling the country are largely due to the dominance of state…
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