From N2.8 billion to N3.5 trillion by Emmanuel Yawe

Fela Anikulapo Kuti

 Emmanuel Yawe

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On that bright day in April 1980, the body of a Nigerian Senator was lying in state inside the Senate Building in Lagos. Speaker after speaker, across the political divide stood up to give testimony of how hard the man worked for the unity and progress of Nigeria. President Shehu Shagari, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Dr Namdi Azikiwe in a rare demonstration of unity spoke in honour of the dead man. His name was Joseph Sarwuan Tarka.

Outside the Senate building, another drama was playing out. A man held a giant black board on which he called on President Shehu Shagari to probe a stolen 2.8 billion Naira. The protester was not an ordinary

The looters have come home to roost by Emmanuel Yawe

 Emmanuel Yawe

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“President Jonathan’s party, the PDP is another source of worry. Even if Jonathan were a man of high moral standards, the PDP would drown him. It is a gathering of avaricious and greedy men and women..

They do not have an ideology in that party. There are certain agreements and minimum standards even among wild beasts in the bush. In the PDP, nothing is morally repulsive. The only thing they agree on in the PDP is that Nigeria is a war booty to be looted.”

Those were my words in this column, published first on May 30, 2011 and reproduced on May 24, 2015. Captioned ‘Can we trust