Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has described the ban of Okada in Lagos state as \u2018the futility of trying to tackle poverty.\u2019<\/p>\n
The recent implementation of the Okada ban has led to protests in major areas of Lagos state and an outcry from residents.<\/p>\n
Ezekwesili criticized the government on its approach to solving problems in Nigeria, adding that the present administration would never solve any problem by denying it exists.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the okada, keke embargo on her Twitter handle, Ezekwesili wrote, \u201cWhen I read about the Okada and Keke ban last week, it made me tweet about the futility of trying to tackle Poverty by \u201chiding your Poor\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI promised to do a thread on why the Problems identified are correct but the Policy Choice is sub-optimal.<\/p>\n
According to her, all the present government achieves daily is to \u2018heap hardship on the masses\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen all the Government achieves daily is to pile all shades of hardship on citizens with no consequence whatsoever, it means that those that lead have very serious denial problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo country, government nor people ever solved a problem they denied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen policy academics, experts and practitioners eulogize Evidence-Based Policy-Making, it is for a very good reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch an approach minimizes the kind of mess and pain that are mostly anecdotal, intuitive, \u201cseems-like-good-idea-policymaking\u201d inflicted on Citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cData anchored and empirical analysis of any problem a person, country, organization or company wants to solve is the best pathway for maximizing success and minimizing failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe opposite is \u201cjust choose an option\u201d that \u201cappears logical \u201c or \u201clooks best, \u201d Ezekwesili added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has described the ban of Okada in Lagos state as \u2018the futility of trying to tackle poverty.\u2019 The recent implementation of the Okada ban has led to protests in major areas of Lagos state and an outcry from residents. Ezekwesili criticized the government on its approach to solving problems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[215,1001],"class_list":["post-20864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ezekwesili","tag-federal-government"],"yoast_head":"\n