By Jerome-Mario Utomi
When Niccolo
Machiavelli first came up with the idea that cruelty could be rightly or
wrongly employed in governing a country, he may have had Nigeria in
mind. According to him, ‘cruelty is used well ‘(if it is permissible to talk in
this way of what is evil) when it is employed once for all, and one’s safety
depends on it, and then it is not persisted in but as far as possible turned to
the good of one’s subjects.
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Again, cruelty badly used is that which, although infrequent
to start with, as time goes, rather than disappearing, grows in intensity’’.
Unfortunately, this is where we are today.
