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We must collectively work to create an enabling environment for the optimal development of the talents of the youth to equip them with the tools and skills they need to thrive in this fast-changing globalized world and encourage them to take an active role in the governance of their countries.
The issues and challenges of conflict, unemployment, gender, corruption, education, health, poverty, and hunger in Africa and many developing countries are well-documented.
What is relatively less discussed is the capacity of the institutions we have established and mandated to ensure that government fulfills its social contract to the people in the spirit of fairness, justice, inclusiveness, and absolute accountability.
Absolute accountability, not just by government but by the institutions of state in service to the people and not themselves, will go a long way to remedy many of the systemic problems that affect our African people.
In Africa, we need ethical and moral uprightness as guiding principles, a stoic fidelity to the truth and to do right by our people above all other considerations.
A judiciary owes it a duty to deliver impartial justice to the people, an Ombudsman owes a duty of care to the people to investigate all issues of malfeasance. A police force should exist to serve the people and not rein terror on them; an electoral commission owes a sacred duty of care to the people.
This is by ensuring that they are included in the electoral process and not excluded in the interest of the incumbent administration; an independent media owes it to the people to not only report facts without bias but to hold the government of the day accountable.
