Save Delta From Recycling of Politcians, Reckless Appointment..... FocalPoint Reports To Governor Okowa:

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Comrade Ezekiel Kagbala
The Publisher, CEO FocalPoint Reports

Save Delta From Recycling of Politcians, Reckless Appointment..... FocalPoint Reports Tells Okowa:

The Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has recently sent the names of those nominated for appointment as Commissioners, DESOPADEC, Board, Warri/Uvwie and its environs Development Agency, Delta State Capital Development Agency, Local Government Service Commission names to Delta State House of Assembly for approval.

The Governor also constituted Members of the State Executive Council to put his administration on the pedestrian of service to Deltans. Indeed a commendable venture with possible good intention but executed with injustice.

Only persons afflicted by some egregious naïveté could insist that governor Okowa's second tenure where party favouritism is a strong norm is peopled by competence and merit.

That is why the recent recycling of former political office holders and politcians who lost popularity for gross ineptitude were recycled in the name of appointment, FocalPoint Reports sees it as a transactional style of government enmeshed in service to the ruling political party in the state.

We pray that the presumed people's Governor is not rewarding incompetence and shaming those who are positively impacting on the lives of the less - privileged.

It is unfortunate that those who singlehandedly sponsored educational programmes, healthcare, sport, peace initiatives to sustain, empower and alleviate the sufferings of those impoverished by the transactional government are ignored in terms of appointments.

One such person of note is Comrade Sheriff Mulade who has been giving scholarship, organizing Quiz and Essay competition, Peace programmes without Governor Okowa's support, yet the governor seems to be rewarding mediocrity and turns a blind eye to merits, recycling former House of Assembly members to become advisers, reappointing former commissioners and former government office holders. By implication, Governor Okowa is saying that those not in the politics cannot participate in governance.

For the records, reckless appointment does not put any state government in a positive light and the appointments did not open up any novel vista, instead it only shows how a weak government will settle for weak appointees whose stock in trade is commercial politics.

The circumspection of the State House of Assembly seems to have become a rubber stamp outfit, a helpless garbage - in - garbage - out and miserably teleguarded to serve the governor.

We strongly oppose any form of opaqueness in the appointment process that may suggest a hidden agenda by those whose privilege and power is it to suggest who should be appointed or not.

A reckless appointment only glorifies and celebrates ineptitude and political jobbers which is an outright disregard for merit and tenets of good governance.

We feel that the Governor has failed to review the antecedents and performance of these fellows before recycling them. The governor would have at least call for public appraisal and stewardship of their past records of performance before recycling them.

It was expected that people with fresh ideas, productive brains and minds known with proven integrity for positively impacting results should be appointment to position of service to resurrect Delta State from its present industrial dearth, rather the recent appointment of board members, commissioners, advisers and special assistants has shown that the governor is interested in transactional style of leadership.

Thus, the governor's appointment, as we in FocalPoint Reports sees it, should have been made up of those who are making positive and productive impact without having any government office or support, it would have been fair if the governor had allocated 50% of appointment to those noble minded persons who are making positive impacts supporting and sponsoring development oriented programmes.

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