A salient fact about our existence that often elude the thoughts of evil doers is the fact that nothing covered would remain so for long; everything would, at the right moments, come to limelight.
Events happened, albeit behind closed doors, and maybe, in the deep of the night. Great grandfathers, grandfathers, fathers and big uncles threw cautions into the air and turned deaf ears to the lonely cries of their self-respect and both family and personal dignities, all because of their shameless unquenchable greed.
The can of worms opening and spilling in the public domain, and which has become a banana peel, in the last few weeks constitutes a source of concern to well-meaning Nigerians that such dastardly and mindless bazaar could be perpetrated in a land where over 70% of the youths are jobless, callous insurgency is ravaging, several thousands go about in hunger and other social problems stare people blankly in their faces day--in, day-out.
Myriad of questions are boggling my mind. Chief amongst these is whether there still are people in this country who could be called elder statesmen.
I was writing my promotion exams to the sophomore class of Junior Secondary School when Sambo Dasuki came to limelight alongside others as one of the powerful IBB boys. I was in my year one of the Senior Secondary School when Pa. Bode George was the military governor of the then Ondo State. Chief Olu Falae had been Secretary to the Federal government for a number of years and Chief Aneineh (Mr fix it) had been around for a couple of decades. The above scenario is very true also of other unscrupulous yam-eaters of the last ignoble regime which specialized in the infamous squandering of our collective heritage.
I strongly believe that politics is linked to developments. However, this politics of "yam race" is totally uncalled for. A situation where men that have variously been referred to or should be referred to as elder statesmen, and therefore, barn-guides, are the ones stealing from the barns, is pathetic and really calls for a national concern.
Do Nigerian politicians have conscience at all? Or have their consciences been seared as with a hot knife? A person of conscience would want to do the right thing at all time. He/she would be mindful of the consequences of his/her actions not only on him/her as an individual, but on the people close to him/her or and even people faraway and the entire society.
The reckless and mindless money sharing spree of the principal actors in the erstwhile government commonsensically justify the unanimous decision of Nigerians to not return them to power again.
I salute the courage of their children to have continued to call them fathers; they simply have forfeited that right by shamelessly dragging the family name in the mud.
