ANCHOR
SIJUADE ADE-YEYE, Principal Strategist, TOLDNetwork
GUEST
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO, SSA to the Governor on Security Matters (Yagba West LGA)
”How can young people redeem the acceptance of their leadership?
TOLD Network
”Leadership is service. If you want to lead, you must be ready to serve. Service is helping other people in your own capacity. If we must position ourselves to be given a mandate to lead, we must be recognized and seen to be ready to serve. This is basic!
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
”what are the steps you have taken that positioned you for leadership opportunities as a youth?
TOLD Network
”It is important and equally instructive to acknowledge God who truly enthrones one. There is a saying that, “some humans are the ladder to one’s success”. To attain to the next step of one’s life, it sometimes comes through the testimony of people. I am a writer, and for a long time, I have written different things for different people without pay. In services like this, there are some people who recognize your worth and see what you do. This creates recognition of capability. We are in the time of restoration of the lost. Youths are the leaders of today and children are the leaders of tomorrow. It is time for our parents to sit down and reap what they have labored for, even in leadership. The position I hold is not different from the position of a classroom teacher, a nurse, an artisan etc. we must understand ultimately that there is no superiority in leadership. We must all take adequate responsibilities at our respective fields and works to build the nation together.
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
”what potentials and traits have you seen in the youth of Yagba West and Kogi state, and how do you plan to harness them? Also, how do you plan to attack the traits that are bewildering these youths and hindering them from being productive?
TOLD Network
”We are all gatekeepers at any place we find ourselves. We are responsible for what we allow in at any point in time. Any manifestation we see now is the result of the seeds that some past leaders have sown in the nation and across the world. Every one of us has potentials that can either result in something good or bad. Youths must take responsibility of these potentials, parents and adults are not left out. We all must work together, stand up to build the nation.
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
The trait of entitlement mentality has so much affected the youth. I wouldn’t blame them much, because they feel some people have used their commonwealth, their patrimony has been used by certain individuals, so they feel entitled to have what they feel belongs to them…BUT! We have to be different and we must be different. The rich should bear a part of the burden of the poor whether it is convenient or not. Another way to attack this is that people should rise for value reorientation and enlightenment. We must get our priorities right.
”How do you handle control and manipulation from established leaders and those that are parasites to the positional leader?
TOLD Network
”Wherever there are resources, people move there. To satisfy the right interests, you need the wisdom of God, which still boils down to priority.
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
”Kindly throw more light on the jurisdiction of your office as the SSA Security Matters to the Governor, in Yagba West.
TOLD Network
”I am the Senior Special Assistant, Security Matters to the Governor, in charge of Yagba West LGA. The Governor has appointed me as a trustee on security matters in the LG. we have been to every nook and cranny of YW to mend fences and clear terms that the Gov. does not give room for violence and crime. I check around sometimes in the night and meet our security agencies in strategic places in the LGA at the top of their task. I will also use this medium to plead with citizens not to beg for offenders. Allow them to be punished, so as to serve as deterrent to others that are criminally inclined. This is what I stand for, and hope to achieve.
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
”What should be the attitude of a leader in times of crises? Using COVID-19 as a case study.
TOLD Network
”Our attitude in times of crises is to provide solution, because inherent in us are immeasurable solutions that God has put. However, concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, as a Local Government, we have set up a task force with representatives from each ward, which are non-partisan that will ensure that people follow the safety protocols as given by NCDC through the state Ministry of Health. The feedbacks we have gotten from these agencies are encouraging.
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
”As regards corruption and management of funds, what loopholes have you been able to detect and how are you planning to block them? The ones yet to be discovered, how do you plan to detect them?
TOLD Network
”There is no way I can know or see the loopholes because that is not my jurisdiction. A security man that is intruding finances is already passing his boundaries. I have nothing to do with the finance, which is not my mandate.
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
”What is your leadership philosophy, and what message do you want to pass to our people?
TOLD Network
”My message is basic. We must do the right thing no matter how difficult it seems. We must trust God to deaden ourselves to wrong things. And as youths, we must network with smart and wise people. I am passionate about youths and I’m seeing how we can close ranks and expand the frontiers of these responsibilities ahead of us. I greet you all and I say thank you!
HON. JOSEPH TADE OSHALOTO
