Bad Governance Responsible For Violence -Former INEC Commissioner

The former Commissioner of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Rotarian Georgiana Ngeri-Nwagha has attributed the rising spate of violence in the country to bad governance.

In her lecture entitles, “Ensuring an enduring peace in Nigeria” at a forum organised by the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, District 9140, Rotarian Ngeri-Nwagha, who was the past president of the club said that bad governance in Nigeria had contributed a no small measure to the high level of corruption in the country, a situation that had led to massive unemployment in the country.

According to her, in as much as the problem is not addressed, the country will continue to withness one form of violence or the other.

“As long as we have a very large proportion of our youths idle, unskilled and with no means of  livelihood, we can never hope to have an enduring peace”.

The former Rotary president urged the leadership of the country to exercise political will to tackle the incidence of corruption.

The funds to provide adequate infrastructure and social amenities for the citizens of this country and to train our youths in various useful skills can easily be made available if the monster called corruption can be tamed, she declared.

All that is needed is the political will ensure that the available funds are not swallowed up by a few privileged individuates who find themselves in various government offices, she said.

Rotarian Ngeri-Nwagha also stressed the need for ethical reorientation to ensure on enduring peace in the country, noting that in, recent years moral values have been tossed aside in our society and we have adopted a culture of the end justifying the means.

The result is that, no one bothers any more about how people make their money, youths on the other hand are also getting quite adept at acquiring corrupt practices, she added.

Rotarians to join in the campaign for world peace through the promotion of ethnical revolution.

A cross section of participants at the forum described unemployment as a time bomb ticking to explode and urged the government to do something about it.

The Rotary club of Port Harcourt president Rotarian Herry Sota who also contributed said that the club will continue those values that will promote peace in the world.