The
elder statesman and former ambassador to the United Kingdom (UK), Dr
Christopher Kolade has condemned the poor quality of communication emanating
from the Presidency, citing the “rodents” issue as an example of “unedifying
communication,” reports ITRealms.
Kolade,
former Chairman of Cadbury Nigeria and
former chancellor of Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, spoke on “The Pursuit of
Excellence” at the first annual lecture of the Cadbury Nigeria Alumni
Association, a gathering of former
employees of the FMCG firm, held at the weekend in Lagos.
He
decried the regression of professionalism across many sectors in Nigeria,
citing lack of trust as one of the factors for the continued strikes across
many areas.
Kolade, a renowned communication professional and former
Director General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, noted, “We should not be
too embarrassed to mention the shortage of excellence in the quality of
communication in governance, as we recall that, not too long ago, the nation’s
President arrived back from overseas, and decided that he would work from home
for a few days.
He wondered why anyone has to explain that to
Nigeria, pointed out that the President’s home in this context is only a few metres away from
his office, and “he, like you and me, is eminently free to decide where he will
physically sit for the successful
performance of his duties.’
He described the explanation that
rodents had displaced the head of state from his exalted office space, for the
maintenance of which the nation makes generous allocations of human and
financial resources in every annual budget!
“Would the announcer of that
information proudly display that to other members of his professional
constituency as an example of best practice in edifying communication,” he decried.
Ogo Nebenanya/GEE
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