Nigeria’s Leadership Recruitment Must Improve – Pius Anyim

An ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim has come out to say that Nigeria is stagnant because of the nation’s leadership recruitment process.

He recently revealed this via a statement and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, leaders keep getting recruited without proper training in the country and they never have the basis to apply certain principles that would make them do their work efficiently and dependably.

He added that the security challenges we are facing in Nigeria lies with leadership and it won’t stop until we fix the problem.

His words, “I want to believe that the basis for our setback today is on the process of leadership recruitment. When leaders are recruited without proper training, certainly, they would not have any basis to apply certain principles that would make them do their work efficiently and dependably.”

“The interface between the military and the civil society has become an inescapable narrative and we must build the interface in such a way that we would know the dividing line.”

“There is a nexus between the administrators of the polity and the defenders of the polity and both must work hand-in-hand and understand their borderlines in other to deliver services.”

“In my first year in the university, my uncle who was a warrant officer told me about the Direct Short Service form. I told some of my friends about it, they encouraged me and I at that time felt I would do better as a soldier than a graduate from the university.”

“I went back to my uncle and asked him to look for a form for me, he did but by the time I returned the form to him, it was late. I was never invited to the screening. If I had submitted on time, I would have been selected to serve in the Nigerian Army and it would have been a sweet experience for me to help Nigeria combat some of the challenges we are facing today.”

“The security challenges we are facing in Nigeria lies with leadership, if we had gotten the leadership right from the grassroots our problems will not have been the way it is. If you are a leader, you will face challenges and you must address them.”