To begin with, this candid effort was not borne out of parochialism or partisanship but indeed from a burning passion, patriotic and simply genuine interest for the long desired development of our communities, states, and the entire nation of Nigeria, with a special focus on that integral segment of any nation closest to its people. Every nation consists of this tripod component for effective governance- the national/federal, the state/prefectures, and the local community government area.
Arguably, our existing laws as embedded in the Nigeria Constitution did not fail to envisage what each of this level of government’s responsibilities are and ought to actually be. However, hitherto the crux of the matter has not been in the knowing of these properly articulated obligations, but in doing them. I had wept bitterly in a symposium organized to mark a Nigerian dignitary’s 60th birthday and during my contribution, I said that what Nigeria as a country lacks is not elaborate speakers, gifted orators and/or talented raconteurs (obviously we have these in abundant supply), but dare–devil doers and performers, active and proactive leaders.
We hardly have such “outrageous and eccentric” trail blazers among us. But come to think of it, isn’t that exactly what the national leadership down to its least cadre urgently requires–an out–of-ordinary individual, a maverick, one whose pattern of achieving deviates from what has been considered the conventional and regular ways of doing things? Constraint of space will not permit me some necessary details presently, but I want to quickly draw your attention to a particular lonely Local Council Development Area (LCDA) – Ejigbo LCDA sandwiched into Oshodi Isolo Local Government Area, one of the 20 L.G.A. in the disputed largest populated state in Nigeria – Lagos State.
