A university don, Prof. Owolabi Usman, has tasked the successive governments on revamping the institutions as panacea for a sustainable development.
He spoke at this year, international conference by the Department of Management and Accounting of Ladoke Akintola University, (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, which was themed “Institutional frameworks building and National Development, “laying emphasis on government institutions as catalyst for a sustainable development.
According to him, the change of government and ruling political parties in Nigeria is affecting sustainability of policies, unlike what obtains in the United States of America, where policies remain irrespective of whoever or whichever political party comes to power.
Usman, who was chairman of the conference, said though the mantra of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration is ‘change,’ which connotes eradicating corruption, the question many people have failed to ask is how do we curb the menace of corruption?
He noted that corruption has remote and immediate causes, which is the problem of institutions, saying the institutions of government are over-due for overhauling.
The university don added that the responsibility of revamping our institutions is not the responsibility of government officials alone but the entire citizenry, by supporting the policies of the institutions, as a way of engendering sustainable development.