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Friday, 3rd April, 2009

GOV ALIYU STRESSES IDEALS OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP

The Chief Servant and Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has stressed the need for a paradigm shift from our present style of master-leader relationship which sees leadership as a means to personal wealth to that of servant leadership which recognizes the people as the target beneficiaries and encourages participatory democracy.

Delivering a lecture as Guest Speaker at the 2009 Executive Intelligence Management Course of the Institute of Security Studies, Abuja Governor Aliyu stated that servant leadership focuses on the results and impact generated by the actions and activities of individual stakeholders in achieving collective goals and aspirations.

According to the Chief Servant, “the Servant Leader must perceive his/her role as a humble employee, a steward who forgets his/her personal interests and who is more concerned with the greatest good for the greatest number.” He said that since the emergence of a Servant Leader begins from the level of political party formation through to the electoral point, there is the need for the parties to evolve from “ideological considerations and have national outlook so as to establish a tradition of producing good people who will entrench a symbiotic relationship between the leaders and the led so as to be able to demand for good governance.”

Dr. Aliyu said the arbitrariness that characterized the activities of the political parties must be properly checked in order to produce a recognizable identity for individual parties that Ngierians can relate with. He opined that doing so will encourage the emergence of servant leadership as members will enjoy transparency and decorum based on party manifesto that allows for fair play and justice.

 The Governor called for the creation of independent appraisal organs and channels through which the wrong steps of the leaders would be checked in accordance with the rule of law. He urged the electorate to be watchful of their elected officers stressing that the electorates’ active participation is a pre-requisite for the enthronement of servant leadership.

While establishing the connection between Servant Leadership and duties of security officers, Governor Aliyu urged the course participants to always be guided, in the discharge of their duties, by the need to promote and preserve the integrity and security of the nation and her citizens.

He enjoined them to live above board and demonstrate zero tolerance for corruption and its tendencies, stressing that they must see themselves as agents of positive change in the society. He thanked the management of the Institute for finding him worthy to speak on the subject matter. “Servant Leadership in a Democratic Dispensation: Myth or Reality?”

Earlier, the Director of the Institute for Security Studies, Mr. Ekpenyong E. Ita expressed appreciation to the Chief Servant for the warm reception accorded to the course participants while on a tour of Niger State recently.

Mr. Ita congratulated the Governor on the wonderful achievements recorded so far by his administration and expressed optimism that the state’s vision of becoming one of the three best states in the country by year 2020 is realizable because “the desire is driven by knowledge, action and long term plans.”

The Director said democracy engenders development without which there can be no security, hence, the timeliness of the lecture and the topic. He stressed that the security agencies are still grappling with the challenges of consolidarting democracy having been orientated in military regimes for decades..

The Executive Intelligence Management Course which ends in June attracted more than 12 state governors who had spoken on various other topics.

 

Bala Ibrahim Abdulkadir,

Director General