Playing God

State governments majorly borrow money to pay contractors and loans collected for the quick finance of workers' salaries and retirees' pensions. All these are offset when the states receive their monthly federal allocations. Indeed, most state governments obtained loans to finance their first choice priorities, road projects, in governance. Sadly, the wearing costs of these road projects are unknown, while their benefits remain speculations. Interestingly, Those-in-Authority continue to play god, instead of allowing the supreme being to play God and then they play the human element of the process.

Regretably, the ''new generation leaders'' in the states have brought in their stride-for the young and old-criminality, fetishness and diabolism. The phrase, ''one of the safest states in Nigeria'' suggests a covert invitation to criminals as seen in some states of the federation. It is not a surprise that career officers and political appointees are now jittery, as the failures and shortcomings in governance gradually unfold, weeks before the general elections. Note-The leadership in Nigeria, while abroad, insisted that it has approved all the requests of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2023, even though the daily record of casualities from violent crimes-rape, killings, ritual killings, kidnappings, armed robberies and terrorism-are on the increase.