Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former minister of education, asserts that no one government is able to resolve all of the nation’s issues on its own.
Citizens must participate in the process of resolving social issues, according to Ezekwesili, convener of FixPolitics and founder of the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance.
She made this comment while visiting the Not Forgotten effort School in Abuja, a non-profit institution created to provide free access to education. Human Capital Africa is an accountability effort.
As part of the celebrations for Ezekwesili’s 60th birthday, the HCA gave N2 million and adopted the school for intervention programs.
Ezekwesili praised Tosin Adeniyi, the school’s founder, for coming up with the idea as part of efforts to lower the number of Nigerian children who are not in school, but bemoaned the fact that the traditional failure in governance suggests that citizens must also play their own role in advancing society.