NO human, no matter the angels guiding him, can thrive under below normal working condition.
The world is a ‘centre page’ for exhibition of potentials, both materially and in the aspect of human and mental buoyancy. However, the control of most resources are reposed in the hands of some selected or elected individuals, who are ultimately referred to as ‘Government.
Nigeria and the rest of the world practice this style of leadership, though each country has a peculiar method of achieving her aim.
The working conditions and the level of organizational productivities are to a large extent dependent on government policies and program.
Argueably, more than across section of the workers in the Nigeria labour market work in a diminished standard condition. They grunt over the environment under which they are subjected to and of course emanciating ‘pays’ at the end of each strenuous month. Despite their ordeal, very little number of individuals have the courage to cry out because as the saying goes “he who pays the piper determines its tune” in a country where they are oceans of unemployed.
Far be it that there is limited turn out of wealth, but the access is the hand of few individuals or groups.
Workers motivation is a key strategy towards the realization of organizational goal and indeed nation building. The absence of it introduces and retains the deadly menace of brown envelop syndrome which is the mother of corruption.
Naturally, when a man is hardly able to feed his family three times a day, he cannot afford cheap holiday trips for his kids, his sense of uprightness is bound to gradually depreciate until he finds himself mentally ‘beefing’ government officials who fly themselves and families abroad at the slightest feel of ‘finger nail ache’.
The inception of the print media house, the NIGERIA OBSERVER in 1968 under the military head of state, Col. Ogbemudia, appeared to the general public, a step in the right direction towards all round dissemination of information. Over the years, this media outlet has become a shadow of its former self owing to maladministration and unfavourable government policies. Bendel Brewery and so many other multi million naira establishments are not free from this plague. Their buildings are dilapidated. Administrative works under such establishment are epileptic, some of which are completely shut down.
Not until the powers that be wake up to their collective and individual responsibilities, Nigeria in entirety will eventually arrive at the destination of calamity.
