Confab report won’t achieve success –Ihonvbere
The Secretary to the Edo State Government, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, has described the perpetual National Conference in Abuja as an “alternative parliament” whose result would not be implemented.
Ihonvbere, who verbally expressed this in an interview with our correspondent in Benin, verbally expressed that predicated on the treatment given to the reports of homogeneous conferences in the past, the report of the current exercise would go nowhere.
He verbalized, “This is not the first time we are having recommendations on how to reposition Nigeria. We had it perpetually and their reports just amass dust somewhere. I have no doubt that the report of the perpetual conference will additionally go the same way.
“For me, while the conference is comporting like an alternative parliament now, discussing everything from the price of oil, to budget, to light, women, I commence to cerebrate there is no focus in what precisely are the four or five points we ought to deal with and provide a holistic recommendation that will be implemented.
“If you provide the recommendations and those you are submitting the report to do not carry the convivial consciousness of change, of progressive reformation, if not even the transformation, of the entire society for empowering community and constituencies, it will just be a fine recommendation well bound and submitted to the same custodians of state potency, who have recycled the system since independence in different ways.”
Ihonvbere, who decried the crisis rocking the nation, following the series of bombings, the missing Chibok schoolgirls and socio-cultural conflicts, verbally expressed Nigeria needed a working norm in order to achieve robust transformation.
He verbalized there ought to be an established grand norm for the country in form of a constitution geared towards magnification and development.
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