Okonjo Iweala, the famed technocrat , has returned to the pulpit. The gospel of good governance, like that of Christ, is easily preached. Technocrats come into public service in Nigeria brandishing reputations and clutching unto self righteousness.

Quota system is a blight. When it sits besides apostles of change and receives no contempt , no scorn, it undermines the authenticity of their message. It may have been necessary to glue a loose aggregation after independence. Since at that infancy, peace and all inclusive participation were so indispensable justice could be kept in abeyance. There was no nation then. 56 years after independence, justice and fair play cannot remain onlookers.

El- Rufai left many marks on the FCT. Good and ugly marks. He stamped professionalism and order on the city. And rescued it from the rot and madness that explosive urban drift has inflicted on many Nigerian cities. Or didn’t he?

Samuel Okonta is dead. His death sparked no public anger. Youth corper, on national duty, chased down and murdered. Amaechi, Wike, Dakuku, Asari Dokubo, Patience Jonathan, Ateke Tom, Egberipapa et al are all alive. Living with their families in secure comfort. Glory be to God. They have poured in their condolences and tears but left their rhetoric erect and dangerous. When opponents become cockroaches, murder becomes mere pest control. When demon possess elephants in a fight even trees are not spared. Soldiers have also been mowed down. Port Harcourt is now the garden of bloodletting. Depths that ISIS is yet to contemplate are being plumbed. In this abattoir, vultures take away skulls for keeps.

Bail is now free. Isn’t it? One thing the APC does fairly well is appropriating moral high grounds. Intolerable hypocrisy happens in politics. Delusion is worse but excusable. A troublemaker can insist on being renamed ‘Papa peace’. We have humored many of them. The society is better if morons marched around with the self esteem of geniuses.