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By Cosmas Omegoh
Participants at yesterday’s conference in Lagos unanimously affirmed the role of the Nigerian electorate in national development, urging the citizenry to realise this for the progress of the country.
This came on the sidelines of the 33rd annual lectureship anniversary of a civic society group, Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CFSJ), which held at the group’s Success Attitude Development Centre, on Esuola Street, Okota, Lagos.
The guest speaker, Mr Solomon Segun Ojo, a former lecturer at the University of Lagos and former Director, Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), titled his lecture paper, “Good Governance and Economic Growth: The role of the citizens.”
He made it clear that he was not a politician and had no solutions to Nigerian’s myriad of problems, insisting that he was at the venue to stimulate reflections and discussions.
He, however, took the auditorium full of guests through the outline of his lecture focusing on characteristics of good governance, features of economic development and growth and expected role of citizens.
He emphasised the need for Nigerians to realise the huge role they had to play in the well being of the country, adding that the task of making the country great was a collective one. “When you put the politicians under pressure by making constant demands from them, you are telling them to go and look for the money,” he said.
He underlined the growing need for the citizenry to obey the laws of the land, and appreciate Nigeria since “we have no other country we can call home,” recalling that the bad deeds of the citizenry have ways of reverberating in other lands.
The convener of the programme and National President and founder of CFSJ, Pastor John Adesanya, said the theme of the event was chosen after a reflection on the need to encourage good governance in the country. “We chose the theme with the aim of promoting good governance in the country and ensuring that we build a body of upright citizens.”
A cross section of professional men and women as well as the clergy and representatives of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) attended the event.
