They had no Laws guiding them
No constitution
No procurement act
No appropriation act
No senate and HOR to scrutinise their expenditure, no budget committee in the house
No civil servants in MDAs to pad
No BPE, No ministry of finance,
They didn't present their budget to house..
They didn't have to wait for approvals from lawmakers to spend
They didn't need to depend on civil servants to prepare the budget of each MDA
To purchase or rent an ambulance in the ministry of health, you will write 10 memos and a clerk can keep in the drawer for days
Vendor selection alone will take you 2 weeks then you will have to fight several interest groups in different ministries.

Public service isn't as simple as it looks. There are fundamental problems that you will have to dismantle.
Some Directors in the civil service have single imprest approval limit of N200,000 😃😃 Executive Directors can't sign more than N1,000,000 memo..
For two weeks they were able to achieve all these in 'real' life. In the public sector their memo will still be in a file on the table of the admin officer. They will still be waiting for approval to buy water..

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