The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday re-arraigned embattled Judge of the Federal High Court Lagos, Rita Ajumogobia, for alleged money laundering before Justice Mohammed Liman.
We understand rights and responsibility better because we did not grow up under a colonial overhang. We are not afraid of the white man, or to think our own thoughts. We actually grew up with less fears because we didn’t grow up with many handouts; we haven’t been spoon-fed, and we have fended for ourselves and many of us are today entrepreneurs, intrepid startup guys who bulldoze any impediment rather than whine!
I met one of the many sons of one of Nigeria’s early leaders just last week. The burly guy from the East of the Niger was quite remarkable. As I saw him out of my office, he made a remark about the generation of leaders that his father belonged to. He said he loves and respects his now late father, but that in their era, they neither obeyed the law nor subjected themselves to simple, clear rules and regulations. He said they would usually defy the law and do ‘gra gra’; that even when they were wrong, they refused to admit. Yes, many of our leaders in that era sim