By Olu Fasan
Every senator and every member of the House of Representatives who voted to create a regional ‘development’ commission in Nigeria claim it is a game-changer that will radically transform the geopolitical zone concerned. But that’s not true; rather, it is another unaccountable federal agency that will induce the squandering of public funds and do little to support regional development.
Similarly, every president who signs into law a bill to establish a regional ‘development’ commission has fostered another opportunity for patronage politics and all types of corruption and abuse of entrusted power.
