WRITTEN BY CHIBUZOR OKOYE
The pioneer chairman of the economic and Financial Crimes commission ( EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu says, Nigeria urgently needs good governance and social justice to survive.
Mallam Ribadu stated this while delivering a convocation lecture at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka as part of activities to mark the university’s eleventh convocation held at the schools auditorium .
The Nnamdi Azikiwe University auditorium was filled to capacity with men and women from all walks of life including members of the diplomatic community.
Delivering the lecture titled “ leadership and challenges of national unity which he dedicated to Late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mallam Ribadu expressed joy that the university was indeed living up to expectations in all spheres of academic world.
According to the former EFCC boss, there is mutual suspicion and ethic jingoism that has deprived the country sense of reasoning , justice and fairness adding that a nation succeeds when her leaders are focused , open minded, cosmopolitan, firm and unrelenting, citing Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Nelson Mandela of South African as examples of Ideal leaders.
Mallam Ribadu who paid tribute to the industrious and gregarious nature of |Ndigbo revealed that the leadership that will take the country to the next level cannot tolerate degenerative values that allow discriminatory practices to thrive even as he said that political stability is the bedrock of growth and development of any society.
The vice chancellor of the University Professor Joseph Ahaneku in a welcome address, noted that the intolerable level of poverty in the country that is blessed with immense human and natural resources reveals rapid corruption at all level of public and private life.
Earlier in his opening remarks ,the chairman on the occasion and former permanent secretary in the federal Ministry of Education Mr MAC- John Nwaobiara opined that Nigerians ‘quest for development depended much on what happens in the university .
Among those that graced the occasion were the state commissioner for education Professor Kate Omenugha, her youths entrepreneurship and sports development counterpart Dr Mrs Uju Nworgu, the traditional ruler of Awka, Obi Gibson Nwosu among others.
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