Have you asked why every saviour always ends up worse than his bad predecessor? King Dionysius (430 BC 367 BC) was famously called the tyrant of Syracuse.
With such clashes usually come allegations of insubordination, financial impropriety, abuse of office, award of contracts without following due process, non-remittance of appropriate funds to government’s coffers and other infractions.
While these ministers adduced various infractions as reasons for their ‘fights’ with heads of agencies under them, analysts, however, believe there are always more “behind the scene” reasons and vested interests for such actions.
Such altercations, according to some analysts, also affect operations of the concerned agencies, even as they erode political authority in governance across the board, with public interest suffering the most.
Two former ministers who spoke with Daily Trust on Sunday on the issue yesterday described such open confrontations as signs of indiscipline and the inability of the government to maintain a cohesive administration.
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Published 14 May 2021
Even with his compromised eyesight, a blind man can see all the cyclonic cataclysm that is presently befalling Nigeria. With his shortchanged hearing capability, a deaf man also is able to pick up the staccato emitting from the strings of catastrophes that have border-to-border engulfed the Giant of Africa. To many of us who live outside of Nigeria, it is now very obvious that there is a surreal siege on Nigeria. Nigeria, my home. Nigeria, our beauty pageant. Nigeria, our hope now turned into a pinata of hopelessness by invading men from foreign lands and their colluding homegrown co-labourers in powerful places. Nigeria, our land, now overrun by killer hell-men herdsmen who freely hound Nigerians unhindered and unstopped by none.
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