The Banks are kicking. The National Employers Consultative Assembly is furious. Apostles of free market are seething. The federal government has directed the banks and telecoms companies to suspend planned massive staff retrenchments. The political opposition has been stirred. To hell with ‘command and control’ economic polices, and tyranny! Foreign investors are cringing. Many critics are excited, there is a mockery feast going on. Buhari and his men are incorrigible. He is perhaps a closet communist. His iron fists will ruin the economy and break the country.

Dogs don’t eat bones hung on their necks. Niger Delta Maritime University wasn’t lucky. They say when local dogs start lapping milk they let human feces be. Perhaps not political dogs. Well, lecturers scratch . So they force students to buy handouts. That’s pardonable extortion. Politicians munch crunchy security votes. And yet pad budgets, inflate contracts, and seize communal lands. Thieves , sensible thieves, steal from strangers. Mature pickpockets don’t work at home. And if home is miserable with great affliction then such looking inwards for local content is inhumanity. Niger delta thieves don’t get it.

The PDP needs salvation. It can start by changing its image. It cannot allow the perception that it is the party that is soft on corruption linger. It cannot be the party preaching “all have sinned”. It must seek righteousness. But in the meantime it must find some vocal Pharisees.

She has rolled over many times. But they never come to their fill. They have taken her milk and her peace. She is desolate and inconsolable. But they are implacably ravenous. Many shades of hyenas. The latest, the avengers. A beautiful bride isn’t heart broken because her beauty would be consumed. She wants love and care , some requital. Niger Delta. The goose that has laid the golden eggs since Oloibri. Adaka Boro was prescient, fairness is not a given. The civil war left her frightened, and she went for safety.

And in any case, even if the case is deemed watertight, judges can , with methodical ruthlessness dismantle reason. Lecturers award A’s to poor papers of willing female students . There is a spreading insensitivity to immorality. In the good old days you could just mummify the case by buying a perpetual injunction. But take heart, money has many ways of creating reasonable doubts . The very rich don’t go to prison. Imprisonment is not their portion.