The rejigging of Anambra State commenced with the Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration marking the ascendancy of the reign of ethical leadership and fiscal responsibility. It is an exhibition of fundamental ethical principles in service to humanity and the ability to balance between government spending and tax, maximizing incomes by curtailing spending powers or taking undue advantage of government funds.
Against popular sub cultural reign, it is a revolution in ethical re-armament in leadership and follower-ship based on good governance, open society, moral superstructures, accountability, fiscal responsibility, and rule of law, insecurity, productivity and service delivery.
The morality and ethical basis of Professor Soludo’s governance structure is based on open society. Social contract delivery in the public and private space is a personal duty to mankind before self. So, self-interrogation and self-judgement in social action is when you honestly review and appraise your productivity or contributions to economic growth and the well being of the society, conduct ethical risk assessments, promote inclusivity in decision making, and communicate transparently.
Successful leaders have always possessed these dialectical and critical imagery of good governance, articulated scientifically and artistically. A leader must have the knowledge that can help people navigate a complex and over-changing reality. The moral foundations of good leadership and service delivery is that in a given society everybody is involved.
In abandoning ethics of duty, fiscal responsibility and the ethics of leadership, we unduly chose easy and short cut to naked power and popularity. This is ab initio, a rogue idea in a rogue society that suffers from moral collapse and degradation which the Soludo administration is against. Such is akin to sowing the seed of gun-powder, building the society on fragile and unsustainable foundations, the survival of the fittest, unaccountability and corruption.
The Government of Anambra state seeks to lay the foundation of peaceful and progressive society for all, promoting the efforts and talents of everyone and ameliorating the weakness and disadvantages of the other. For greater service delivery, fiscal responsibility in our society and democracy, subservience to the organic ecosystem must come first before personnel interest.
In good leadership eco-system or sociopolitical economy, the ultimate aim is to leverage on existing ethical norms to ensure that goods and services are delivered seamlessly within the ambit of legal frameworks for economic growth, development and sustainability. It is evident that the polity or the socio-political reality comprising the social contract, fiscal discipline and the sustaining principles are the drivers of progress in history, economic growths and productivity.
Historical examples are the awesome ethical leadership commitments of ants in building mountains and that of the modern industrial societies like Britain, Europe, U.S. Japan and Asian Tigers namely; Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Therefore, no good leadership or sustainable development is possible without moral superstructure, accountability, fiscal discipline, transparency, integrity and rule of law.
On the other hand, the consequences of absence of ethical leadership and fiscal discipline are corruption thuggery, sociopolitical anomy, violence, political rascality, kidnappings, robbery, assassinations, electoral frauds, insecurity and unproductivity. But in Anambra state, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has tightened the screw on taking undue advantage of government funds.
Written by PROF. MADUABUCHI DUKOR
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