A call for focus on the environment
By Adekunle Adekoya AFTER the May 29 swearing-in of the President and state governors, those who won elections are now trying to form their governments. In the presidency, some special advisers and assistants have been appointed, while some governors have equally appointed advisers and assistants and secretaries to the state governments. While we await cabinet lists at the federal and state levels, I want to sound a note of caution to the appointing principals not to just appoint people into offices without a rigorous check on their capabilities. Their zest for the schedule they will be assigned should also be properly assessed before being handed portfolios. Very often, we end up with square pegs in round holes in terms of portfolio assignments, in which the people in certain offices got the jobs because they had to be rewarded as loyal party men, or simply because they helped fill the chest with which the campaign was funded. This is not to say that worthy contributors to the politic...