by Avann Harvey
In the fields of project management and operation research, there are two broad methods of benchmarking – horizontal and vertical.
In horizontal benchmarking, we erroneously compare two quantities having different make-ups, unrelated parameters and existing at two different times.
This type of comparison is very superficial, peripheral, misleading, and defective.
This is exactly what some persons tried to use to confuse and ultimately deceive Edo people when they tried to benchmark the performance of Adams Oshiomole’ s government in terms of structural development in hospitals with Lucky Igbinedion’s government.
In vertical benchmarking, two quantities with very related parameters and existing at the same time are usually compared. This is an effective method to scientifically benchmark with empirical evidences.
For the benefit of Edo sons and daughters both at home and abroad, it has become incumbent on some of us who know to expose the salient, yet glaring, failure of Adams Oshiomhole’s government in the area of health care delivery.
We won’t allow politicians, especially jobless youths, to continue to use political comparison to encapsulate this huge failure.
It is instructive to note the following:
(1) Edo State has more Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) than Ondo State.
(2) The amount of money Edo state has borrowed in the last 7 years cannot be compared to that of Ondo State.
(3) Edo State has spent more than double the amount Ondo State has spent to develop health care delivery.
(4) Adams Oshiomole’s government is one year older than that of Olusegun Mimiko.
(5) The paparazzi and fanfare about two additional structures to the central hospital in Benin City is insulting to all discerning Edolites.
While the people and government of Ondo state are celebrating groundbreaking, heartwarming, and breathtaking development in healthcare delivery, our people and government in Edo state are celebrating mere addition of two structures to an existing hospital.
What is more worrisome is the amount of noise they are making about this obvious failure.
I wept when I saw some of our young men and women, who are supposed to be gainfully engaged in various productive ventures, celebrating mere renovation which obviously and relatively cost more than the Medical Village built by Ondo state government.
Mimiko’s Achievements in health make up a photo album. Enjoy the gallery below:
The amount of time and energies dissipated on this fruitless celebrations by our youths is a pointer to the fact that Edo youths have no jobs.
Please, stay back and watch this short documentary of the one-in-town Medical Village conceptualised and built by the government of a neighboring Ondo state with lesser resources and lesser noise-making.
This is the first in the series of my purposeful and scientific comparison devoid of any political consideration.
#TheChangeWeWant must come to Edo.
#ISEeeeee.
Thank you for your time.
Avann ‘Eghosa’ Harvey can be reached on Facebook.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
