Insecurity affects voters decisions for example when the board is on fire, you can’t play chess.
You campaign to provide good roads to rural dwellers to transport their agricultural products to urban centers for sale, due to kidnapping, construction workers are afraid of going to sites or bandits kidnapped farmers while on their farm work which is an indication of no security, no project, no farm work, voters can conclude government have failed to protect them and may change their voting patterns.
While deceit is about promises line jobs availability, boreholes projects empowerment that were never budgeted but by using fake projects photos, inflated numbers, paying rented crowd for rallies.
People see nothing delivered, they conclude by calling all politicians are liars, even when the Government does something real, citizens don’t trust it or participate, no community buy-in, project abandoned
The implications is that incompetent people can learn, deceitful people destroy the relationship between government and the governed, once trust is gone even good policies face protests and sabotage.
Political cost
Insecurity and deceits can lead to low voters turn out , people will stay in their houses with the belief their votes don’t count so what is need of suffering myself under hot sun
In conclusion, honest and secure implementation takes the form of:
Don’t promise to end it but promise to reduce it by say 40% in 24 months with measurable steps such as youth engagement of about 20 youths in agricultural value chain production, training of community vigilantes or provision of 10 patrol vehicles within the first 100 days while in office.
Partner with traditional councils because they are custodians of intelligence gardening network. Smart administrators partner with them not side-line them.
The public contract model – publish what you can do based on available resources at your disposal.
If the project fails hold the press conference and say we failed here because of x reasons, people forgive failure more than lies.
Let’s keep the flag flying for integrity.
– Benjamin Ibrahim writes from Lokoja, Kogi state.
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