‘A Thief and His Apprentice’ where Dubious Merchants Trade in Power
The Nigerian crisis has deepened so much with devastating impacts on the people and the country itself. Many otherwise hopeful and patriotic citizens are beginning to doubt justifiably the possibility of the country surviving having been consistently and continually ravished by an irresponsible and thieving class that has held the country hostage for years. As far back as 1991, General Ibrahim Babangida the then Dictator who held sway had admitted in a moment of dubious surprise during an interview with The Daily Times why the Nigerian economy (and by necessary implication, the Nigerian state) had not collapsed given the level of mismanagement the country had suffered in the hands of its ruthless minders which ironically he was leading at that auspicious time in the history of Nigeria...
