Sir: All members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum why are you governors not copying yourselves especially the brilliant programmes in your respective states?

In the words of former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, we have had enough of pilot projects; what we need now is to scale up. When you ignore a brilliant programme of your brother governor, I mean 35 of you then it remains a pilot project.

Now as above, so below. When you ignore a brilliant programme at the Federal,  I mean 36 of you,  then it remains a pilot project.

Now let’s list some brilliant and excellent programmes at federal and states:

• Mental Health Act by former President Muhammadu Buhari.

• There is no health without mental health. So you have to domesticate the Mental Health Act and integrate it into primary healthcare. 40 million Nigerians have mental health problems. One quarter of all hospital beds should be reserved for mental health patients.

• The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan has just spoken on the mental health crisis amongst the undergraduates of Nigerian universities. A stitch in time saves nine. Tomorrow may be too late.

• Tourism summit of the Federal Ministry of Arts Culture Tourism and Creative Economy.

•Wale Ojo Lanre is in charge of Tourism in Ekiti State. He emerged as Nigeria’s leading tourism journalist. He is a historian. That is a plus. He is also a peace and conflict expert.

• Aerial mapping in Ekiti State. That would resolve so many problems of land administration land dispute, land grabbing, boundary disputes and more and these have added billions of dollars to the Ekiti economy.

• Partnership  of Imo State with University of California, Berkley  towards getting the youths away from cultism and Internet fraud and transforming the Imo economy from an analogue one to a fully digital economy.
100,000 to be trained with ready jobs. This is brilliant. We need to scale this up to the other 35 states and Federal Capital Territory.+

• Smart classrooms in Enugu and artificial intelligence used by the State Security Service on patrol.

• Primary health care centres, Kaduna State Independent Power Project and traditional attire day, Aso Oke Day in Oyo State and primary health care.

• Handbook of Oyo State by Dotun Oyelade, Commissioner of Information and Culture.  Every state should have a handbook.

• Vocational and Technical Training Centre, Kano State and Cross River State town planning. They invited Paul Okunola, Country Manager of Habitat. That’s excellent. You can use town planning to eradicate poverty.

• Kebbi State 159.000 tonnes of potatoes to be produced. That’s bold and brilliant for crop production. Every state perhaps has to select one crop for massive production like Kebbi State. So Kebbi State can benefit from an investment on a potatoes chips factory.

Togonu Bickersteth wrote from London.