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Anyim Blames Nigeria’s Predicament On Leadership Recruitment

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, has said the setback witnessed in Nigeria is a result of the kind of leadership recruitment in the country.

According to him, recruiting leaders without training leads to the current situation Nigeria is in.

Anyim said this in Abuja at the presentation of a book titled “Leadership principles for junior commanders in the military.”

He said, “I want to believe that the basis for our setback today is on the process of leadership recruitment. When leaders are recruited without proper training, certainly, they would not have any basis to apply certain principles that would make them do their work efficiently and dependably.”

He, however, called for a synergy between the Armed Forces and leaders to deliver the dividend of governance to the people.

“The interface between the military and the civil society has become an inescapable narrative and we must build the interface in such a way that we would know the dividing line.

“There is a nexus between the administrators of the polity and the defenders of the polity and both must work hand-in-hand and understand their borderlines in other to deliver services,” he said.

Ayim expressed regrets that he missed joining the military, a thing he said would have enabled him the opportunity to help fight the challenges of insecurity.

Anyim said, “In my first year in the university, my uncle who was a warrant officer told me about the Direct Short Service form. I told some of my friends about it, they encouraged me and I at that time felt I would do better as a soldier than a graduate from the university.

“I went back to my uncle and asked him to look for a form for me, he did but by the time I returned the form to him, it was late. I was never invited to the screening. If I had submitted on time, I would have been selected to serve in the Nigerian Army and it would have been a sweet experience for me to help Nigeria combat some of the challenges we are facing today,” Anyim said.

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