You can get 3, 5, 10 "cronies" to fill top level positions from INSIDE
Nigeria. But I swear that you cannot get 900 PEOPLE from the Diaspora
through cronyism without 2,000 people knowing about it!
This is why I believe that there is something UNTRUE about this story that
still needs to be investigated. There may be a program; it may be
TOTKEN-like; it may even be funded by the Ministry of Finance; but it is
certainly not UNDP's TOKTEN, and I doubt if there are as many as 900 waiting
in the wings.
Mind you, about three years ago, I worked with the NUC to run a similar
program - LEADS (Linkages with Experts and Academics in the Diaspora Scheme)
- and its first year, we wanted 20 scholars, and we got about 65 applicants
worldwide after advertising in the newspapers at home, putting it on the NUC
website and posting it severally on listgroups abroad. Wading through
resumes and figuring out which was true or false - and matching universities
with people and periods of work - was not easy at all, not to talk about the
logistics of paying for travel fares and stipends and living situation after
the scholars arrived.
We shall see....
Bolaji Aluko
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Segun T. Dawodu <stdawodu@gmail.com> wrote:
> The truth is that many programs even with the potential for national
> impact are rarely advertised by the government definitely not in recent
> times.
> Which top jobs, positions, posts, volunteer works have you in recent time
> seen advertised by the government any where. Give me one medium where such
> positions have ever been advertised.
> The key points are that in the Nigerian style, such things are rarely
> advertised and in the same style cronies and associates are the ones that
> are inevitably called or informed of such positions and given a head start
> if at all those things will be published later. The fact that the ministries
> were asked(according to the article) to submit names has the presumption
> that the ministries may have names of those they are already working with or
> will get new names without defining how that will be done but we all know
> the Naija way of doing that. My reference to egroups community activism lies
> in the erroneous belief that such fora are main media to push such
> information. Some of us have been on egroups for up to 20 years and even
> pioneers in information dissemination on the internet/webs and through the
> egroups fora, so my reference to them is not to disparage anyone.
>
> I do agree with your point that the government SHOULD publish such programs
> BUT the reality is that they DO NOT and we all need to understand the
> reality and what is becoming almost an entrenched culture in Nigeria.
>
> *From:* Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID) <jbi8@cdc.gov>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:36 PM
> *To:* naijaintellects@googlegroups.com ; edo-nationality@yahoogroups.com ;
> naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
> *Cc:* NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com ; afenmai@yahoogroups.com ;
> NigerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com ; usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com ;
> NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com ; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* RE: [Naijaintellects] Re: [edo-nationality] RE: TOKTEN: Nine
> Hundred Nigerian experts return to fix critical economic sectors
>
>
>
> Programs like this (with the potential for national impact) are usually
> advertized either through the media or foreign missions. May be some of you
> saw the adverts or other ways they publicized the program to attract
> applicants. Some of us did not. And this omission has absolutely nothing to
> do with whether one is active in Nigerian egroups/community events or not
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