Former Minister for Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has condemned the nomination of a 25-year-old youth corps member as commissioner in Kwara State.
The State Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq had few weeks ago fowarded a n all female list of commissioner nominees to the stater House of Assembly for ratification.
Included in the list is a 26-year-old corps member, Miss Joana Kolo, serving in Jigawa State.
In his reaction, the ex-minister said such action demeans good governancem which people are yearning for.
Abdulahi who spoke at the lecture organised by the Kwara Gentlemen’s Club in Ilorin, on Saturday, who clarified that though he has nothing against youths involvement in governance, stressed that commissionership is not a platform for industrial attachment or apprenticeship.
“When I was coming into government in 2003 I was the deputy editor of a newspaper and I had also worked in several places, I got appointed as Special Assistant and I became a commissioner four years later.
“The problem is not about the age but you cannot give what you don’t have, commissionership is not a platform where you function as trainee or undergo industrial attachment, it is not also a platform for apprenticeship, you will be in charge of a sector and you must break down the vision of the governor for the said sector and come up with plans and know if such are achievable or not. Governance is a serious business,” he explained.
