By Banji
Ojewale
I do not believe that a society can sustain its democratic claims if
it allows its public office holders to run two lives: an open public life and
another jealously sheathed private one. At work, he or she is immersed in
files, open for scrutiny, even if their over embroidered agbada or sky-touching
gele wouldn’t permit a full and close watch. But at home, in their closet, they
are liberated from any restraint. They at liberty to trash the discipline of
service and accountability.
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That is equal to performing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the eponymous
protagonists of the book by Robert Louis Stevenson. It’s one person leading two
different lives. Jekyll takes a drug that breaks him into two separate
personalities, one good and the other evil. Dr. Jekyll is the amiable
character, while Mr. Hyde exhibits the pernicious traits. Yet it’s one person
at work.
