Even if we elect leaders who want to be honest men and women, will Nigerians let them be honest men and women? We need to make changing attitudes with a civics bill our top priority

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We spend too much money partying when such funds should go into investment. Every local government must set up a cooperative fund and encourage people to pay into it. This capital should then be spend creating sustainable jobs

[2] Local government chairmen should hold monthly public town hall meetings in all 774 local government areas in the country. Our people need to be made part of the governance process

[3] As from January 1 2024, the dede government should launch a Buy Nigeria First consumer goods policy. This process should challenge local producers to up their game quality-wise

[4] All public officials must resign their positions if they chose to go abroad for medical treatment. Nigeria’s healthcare delivery system is never going to work as long as the option of foreign treatment exists

[5] Any public official who sends their child to a foreign university must resign their appointment. We must force the pace of development, getting our own universities to match the rest of the world

[6] As part of a drive to re-introduce modesty into our public life, the federal government will subside the production of the ankara cloth. Vanity breeds corruption and is something we need to take on. If all public office dressed like Ngozi Okonji-Iweala, I think corruption would be on the wane

[7] We need a new bill passed making your state of birth your state of origin. Ethnic mistrust is a big issue in Nigeria and we need drastic action to cut out this cancer

[8] A new law needs to be passed compelling the federal government to part-fund any public works programme initiated by a state government, offering up to a quarter of the funding. However, this is conditional on such programmes being open to all Nigerians resident in such states

[9] A BA/BSc Civics and National Responsibility course will be approved by the National Universities Commission

[10] The family’s of any security, emergency worker or civil servant who dies while on national duty will get N1m from the federal government