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I support that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) be regulated! Every tom, dick and harry now has an NGO. Some people have over 10 NGOs. With a mindset that is known ab initio – money will come out.
Now, my problem with people’s perceptions these days is that monetary recompense is their driving force. That’s why positive and effective results are eluding us. I read Isioma’s reply to someone on twitter, yesterday that “Owo ni keke iyin rere” (money is the propeller of all good honour). I was amazed. Amazed because she’s not the money-liking damsel. For her to have submit thus gave me away.
NGOs are not supposed to coin their mindset into that fashion. Its aims are simply put: “things that better life, improve standards and add value to Nature. These are the very foundational principle upon which NGOs are built. But what we call NGOs in Nigeria just now are deviation from the norms. The first intention is money will come out. And every of their schemes and scheming would be channeled towards making huge sums of money using available defaults, disability and anomaly they can lay hands on to the detriment of the beneficiaries of such scheme.
There are countless NGOs for the blind, the cripple orphans and widows. Others are campaigns against this and for that. We should review and regulate these things. Not to strangulate them but ensure and make sure they serve genuinely their intended purposes.
You can’t be using others disability to amass wealth and you’d say they should not talk about it.
Moral correction or correctness shouldn’t be from NGOs to government alone but from government to NGOs themselves.
The crime being perpetrated by some of these NGOs are enormous compared to what some of our government officials are pushing done on us. Nobody sees them because they are not government, they are not on allocation but you’d be amazed what some NGOs take for that Primary Health Centre behind your house, that school without Library has been provided for via an NGO but you’d not know.
Some NGOs can even profile you to access funds without your consent. And we know for a truth that people with illegal source of income are a threat to any nation. They will do all they can to continue in their illegality. Including recruiting thugs and rogues to stay their course.
There are other dormant NGOs, they come out every 4 years. These are elections NGOs, they monitor and see nothing. They are not after the genuineness of the elections but after the “egunje” that comes with the election. A decent society shouldn’t allow people to flourish in this manner using negative template.
The crime is in high places and we must add our voices to making sure they are well guided.
The regulations should be well spelt out for easy comprehension and not one laced with jejune.
I support Bill to regulate NGO! The time is rife and nigh.
– Henry Folaranmi Francis.
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