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Published 15 January 2021
THE high-handed and overzealous approach of state governors to instilling order has in recent times led to the arbitrary demolition of buildings, exposing the long-established imperial attitude to governance by Nigeria’s political elite.
It is regrettable that government officials continue to perpetrate injustice across the country. Such penchant for governance beyond the law was on display recently when the Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority, acting under the instruction of Governor Nasir el-Rufai, without issuing a prior notice or allowing the occupants opportunity to salvage anything, hurriedly demolished the Asher Lounge Bar in the Kaduna South Local Government Area. Ostensibly, the action was taken to punish the owner of the restaurant for allegedly attempting to allow a customer to host a nude party, which the government claimed would corrupt the minds of the youth. But the organisers of the purported