Unless we stop electing incompetent fellows as lawmakers, our society may never catch up.
Ideally the legislators are potentially the most important figures when a society wants to outgrow her counterparts.
For our dear society, it is not like that. We send people to represent us when we want to reward an obedient party member, or to resolve a conflict between to politicians, or when someone happens to be the favourite son and many other unnecessary excuses.
But all along, we are drowning ourselves, for the legislative is a place for people who know what their society really need. Most of the people we send end up sleeping in public, some do not understand the language of cummunication. While our counterpart societies' legislators are busy presenting better policies that will benefit their regions and put it on top of all others, our lawmakers are nowhere to be traced. We send such hopeless people to the Houses to the extent that, in the end, we loose everything. These are people who do not have inner connection with their society, people who cannot see what their society craves for.
That is the biggest mistake of ours according to my own perception.
Let us stop.sending such people, lets send those who can protect our interests, build policies that will put us to the advantage, create laws that are not too varied from our way of life. The legislators are the media in which govenment understands its people. If there are too much conflicts between the government perception on certain aspect and the people's perception, then the legislators are not working.
One instance where all these makes sense is the cost of doing business in Kano State.
Why is it very difficult to run a business in kano, especially by a native?
Let us glance on the success stories of Hausa businessman. For centuries the hausa man had been a businessman. Well known for that. We have had series of extremely wealthy hausa businessmen.
Now for someone to carry out a business transaction, and succeed, that someone must know what he is doing. And that someone should be an authority in the business. My point is, hausa people have been businessmen for centuries, and they have been successful, then their methods of doing business is worth adopting as another formal way of doing business in nigeria. The hausa man doesnt need the modern corporate business rules. He needs not to study that, he already have his own. What the hausaman only needs is a law that will formalize his way of doing business explicitly.
It is the duty of the lawmakers to push onto that. Let us have a law that will be compatible with the way all our businessmen from Dawanau market carry out transactions.
Its a win win, for both our businessmen and the government.
1. For the businessman, he can do his business with peace of mind, without all the troubles of his encounter with the customs, other government agencies like firs, cac and so on. All these agencies policies are compatible with the corporate business only, these confuse our businessmen. If the legislators can come up with a motion that carries out comprehensive report on how the hausaman does business and ways in which government should interact with the the businessmen in terms of complying with the laws of the country, contract negotiations, tax paying/clearance etc., then there is no doubt our businessmen can cpmpete with any businessman in the world. As it was the case before the western invasion.
2. The goverment could devise a better way of asessing the total net worth of the businessmen and another better way of tax collection from them.
Unless we stop referring to the western books for every solution to our problems, we may not progress. Most of these problems, we have a solution to them.
Some people believe that complexity is the best civilization, i believe simplicity is the best civilization.
For our dear society, it is not like that. We send people to represent us when we want to reward an obedient party member, or to resolve a conflict between to politicians, or when someone happens to be the favourite son and many other unnecessary excuses.
But all along, we are drowning ourselves, for the legislative is a place for people who know what their society really need. Most of the people we send end up sleeping in public, some do not understand the language of cummunication. While our counterpart societies' legislators are busy presenting better policies that will benefit their regions and put it on top of all others, our lawmakers are nowhere to be traced. We send such hopeless people to the Houses to the extent that, in the end, we loose everything. These are people who do not have inner connection with their society, people who cannot see what their society craves for.
That is the biggest mistake of ours according to my own perception.
Let us stop.sending such people, lets send those who can protect our interests, build policies that will put us to the advantage, create laws that are not too varied from our way of life. The legislators are the media in which govenment understands its people. If there are too much conflicts between the government perception on certain aspect and the people's perception, then the legislators are not working.
One instance where all these makes sense is the cost of doing business in Kano State.
Why is it very difficult to run a business in kano, especially by a native?
Let us glance on the success stories of Hausa businessman. For centuries the hausa man had been a businessman. Well known for that. We have had series of extremely wealthy hausa businessmen.
Now for someone to carry out a business transaction, and succeed, that someone must know what he is doing. And that someone should be an authority in the business. My point is, hausa people have been businessmen for centuries, and they have been successful, then their methods of doing business is worth adopting as another formal way of doing business in nigeria. The hausa man doesnt need the modern corporate business rules. He needs not to study that, he already have his own. What the hausaman only needs is a law that will formalize his way of doing business explicitly.
It is the duty of the lawmakers to push onto that. Let us have a law that will be compatible with the way all our businessmen from Dawanau market carry out transactions.
Its a win win, for both our businessmen and the government.
1. For the businessman, he can do his business with peace of mind, without all the troubles of his encounter with the customs, other government agencies like firs, cac and so on. All these agencies policies are compatible with the corporate business only, these confuse our businessmen. If the legislators can come up with a motion that carries out comprehensive report on how the hausaman does business and ways in which government should interact with the the businessmen in terms of complying with the laws of the country, contract negotiations, tax paying/clearance etc., then there is no doubt our businessmen can cpmpete with any businessman in the world. As it was the case before the western invasion.
2. The goverment could devise a better way of asessing the total net worth of the businessmen and another better way of tax collection from them.
Unless we stop referring to the western books for every solution to our problems, we may not progress. Most of these problems, we have a solution to them.
Some people believe that complexity is the best civilization, i believe simplicity is the best civilization.
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