Nigeria’s over N500bn budgeted spending on social intervention programme may become counterproductive unless systems and process aided by sustainable processes are established to guide the programmes.
Kriz David, a leadership expert and consultant said this at the first edition of Leadership Foresight Workshop with the theme: “Leadership and Prosperity of Nations” held at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos on March 10.
The workshop aimed at exploring the principles of sustained economic growth and prosperity of nations based on the leadership model being advanced Kriz David, is with the objective of installing sustainable solutions to tackle the myriad of challenges confronting countries across Africa.
“Leadership makes the difference between prosperous and poor nation and without systemic thinking and leadership, social interventions will become counterproductive,” says David.
He lamented that despite the anti-corruption crusade across the continent, treasury looters are on the rise and increased policing has not reduced the high rate of crime.
Lack of integration of agricultural, tax, funding, transportation, educational, industrial and trade policies, is a major reasons why they are not yielding results says David.
“Direct intervention on agriculture without integrating the requisite policies will at best achieve domestic or family farming.
“Such a policy will facilitate funding for agricultural projects, such that financial institutions and institutional investors would be attracted to provide their surplus funds for businesses and private concerns investing in agriculture.”
An integrative approach according to the consultant will see transportation systems provide easy mobility of agricultural produce. The educational system supporting agriculture through research to provide better methods to enhance inputs and productivity.
It will also enable rapid transformation of produce from raw materials to finished goods in industries and facilitate domestic sales and export of goods.
David, a proponent of Leadership and Prosperity of Nations, explained that his model on Leadership & Prosperity of Nations is built on a tripod of faith – value system; learning – productivity system and law – control system.
“The three systems interconnect and interact with six subsystems or pillars – human and social capital, cultural values, multifactor productivity, institutional framework, governance framework and market framework to impact on the entire social system called a society or a nation,” he said.
He called on policy makers to adopt this model to assist the country achieve sustainable solutions and attain prosperity.
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