Warning! Do not mistake this for a motivational. The looting of Nigeria has become so endemic that it is no longer spoken of in hushed tones.
Nigeria now, perhaps, holds the record of the most number of public officials who have ‘fainted’ while being tried for bare-faced looting of the country’s treasury.
So widespread is the national shame that even an amateur playwright could fashion a thousand scripts out of the improvised acts that many believe are intended to pool wool over the eyes of judges or slow down the pace of justice.
But are these mere acts of trickery or genuine health concerns that quickly turn the accused persons into dramatis personae, and their lawyers becoming emergency movie producers?