Wole
Soyinka reminded us recently –Nigeria has been a country where criminals
are turbaned or regaled with
chieftaincy titles and other
insignia of honor. We can’t be a
nation when elections are turned
into selection fests in which
voters have no say; judges
routinely sell their verdicts to the
highest bidder; legislators
compete with the executive in
devising looting schemes;
corrupt governors and presidents
are shielded by the constitution;
connected politicians and office
holders contrive to snatch the
barest meals from the mouths of
the wretched of the Nigerian
earth but treat themselves and
their own families to opulent
escapades complete with private
jets and carousals on foreign
beaches; one Nigerian is
grudgingly handed a monthly
minimum wage of $120 while
another – called a governor –
carts away $2.2 million each
month in a scam called security
vote.

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