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A few days ago, Madagascar fired its education minister, Rijasoa Andriamanana, for attempted embezzlement. The minister had indicated plans to order more than $2.2m worth of sweets for schoolchildren to mask the bitter aftertaste of the herbal remedy for coronavirus.
Coincidentally, almost at the same time, here in Nigeria, a professor and Director General of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, the agency in charge of developing raw materials for the nation’s industries, Hussain Ibrahim, listed Kilishi as the main breakthrough of the 33-year-old body. The only difference is that up till now, no higher authority has rebuked or punished our own DG for making such a terrible blunder.
A simple definition of raw material is anything used to produce goods and finished products. To hear that the chief executive officer of an agency that is supposed to produce raw materials could describe Kilishi as a technological feat is something that should make any reasonable Nigerian cry. This is a nation that has been funding the economy of other countries spending N2.79trn yearly to import things that we can easily produce at home.
Perhaps, the DG would have performed better if he had limited his response to the information posted on the agency’s website. At least, there is nothing like “Kilishi technology” among the projects listed on the website. Besides, the projects listed are things in line with the agency’s mandate, though they are all at the pilot stage.
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