By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Listening to some government officials speak these days, their mendacity, arrogance and the ‘you can hug the transformer’ bearing, it would seem that this country is their exclusive estate. The rest of us who they have reduced to ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’ are to be seen, not heard.
Even that, to them, is a privilege, for which we should be thankful. Their contemptuous ‘take it or leave it’ attitude has reduced governance to a zero-sum game where those with opposing worldviews are seen as existential threats to be crushed, even as our commonwealth is ruthlessly appropriated and deployed in securing personal power in a self-aggrandising manner that deals fatal blow to public good.
