Lawrence Egede lends media advice for maturity to supersede partisan politics in Ebonyi State and Nigeria at large. READ ON:
Putting important things on record helps to facilitate work relationships in human places of gathering and enforces unity, stability, strength, confidence, courage, togetherness, faith in God and collectivity, to conquer that common enemy of human beings called the wrong choice and failure. No missing link.
It helps people in their families, at workplaces, helps leaders in the field of politics and as well in other activities by mankind.
The leaders I mean as said above are mainly political past leaders of the Nation, those of the States and the LGAs in Nigeria who served their bids.
Each of them should be able to have written their performance evaluation report for the period spent in the office.
The report should contain all that they were able to achieve and what were their respective experiences, during the period of service and keep the record for the new ones to know where to start and work.
Record keeping is extremely important at all times, while at work in an office and thereafter for reference purposes, especially as leaders who served people.
Record keeping will help other leaders and people to know more about the things done, and not done in service to the masses from time to time.
It will also show other leaders coming in to know where to start, know the examples set by the past ones, know what to add and what to subtract due to errors if there were any found.
Without record keeping, there is nothing anybody will be able to know about the past and the present activities of leaders.
One unavoidable example is the Holy bible where all human and spiritual activities were on record, with respective reports about many events in the world that took place accordingly.
I could remember when I was a civil servant with the federal military government, there was always a budgetary plan set for upwards of five years to fifteen years of development periods.
Each period carried a report of what was achieved, what wasn't achieved, what targets to hit and what remained of the set time.
Even when I branched out to the Private Sector, there was a similar method of maintaining monthly performance records in case of absence, so that the next person will know the next line of action to take and be on the right footing, to continue in the right direction of duty from where the last person stopped.
In a place like Ebonyi State, I don't even know whether the political leaders, at different locations were able to keep records of their respective activities intact for study.
I don't know if they patronize the use of what is called Open and Secret Registries where very sensitive, important and working documents should be recorded, kept safe, secure and intact for periodic references.
I believe such Registries could be existing and because I have no business seeking attention there, I omit seeing them exist.
As things are now it is not only keeping records that should be important but leaders ought to have a forum where to always come together and see what they can do, in case of any need for remedial interventions where things are not alright.
This issue of folding of hands, watching things go wrong and without collective intervention, applying corrective measures is very bad. The leaders should be wary and ready to think again.
Politics should not control the leaders but they should control politics instead, and not allow younger ones to copy from the wrong side of political habits.
Partisan or no partisan groups in playing politics, there should be cohesion in situations where collectivity must be used to do something and quell disputes.
In good manners of politics, maturity must be the ultimate means for achieving harmony, unity and real togetherness.
In light of the above, the political leaders in Ebonyi State should start proving that they are too mature for politics to control them, by laying good examples for generations to emulate. It will serve us better.
*To God is the glory forever.*
Lawrence Egede is our guest writer and public affairs analyst.
