THESE folks lack any institutional memory to even understand the subtlety of those they are engaged in power game with. They are in a game whose rules of engagement they don’t have the faintest idea of.

I wanted young people to have better relationships with their parents/guardians. So, they can have mentors who will put them through as they make delicate decisions in life. I also wanted to be that individual that children and adolescents could tell anything to and will be certain of a solution.

WHENEVER I go to Rwanda, I visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial. A monument to the bestial level, human beings can descend, and a reminder that we must do everything possible to ensure that the massacre of over 850,000 people in 1994 in a hate rage, is never repeated.

HOW do you describe incompetence? Merriam Webster Dictionary defines it as “1, not legally qualified; 2, inadequate to, or unsuitable for a particular purpose; 3, (a) lacking the qualities for effective action; (b) unable to function properly”.

The desire for an expedited and fluid process of clearing goods from our ports has been consistently canvassed by all administrations in our recent past. Admittedly, the situation is not near as chaotic as the ‘ship jam’ of the cement armada on Nigerian waters in the early 70s, but the promises of successive governments’ of a 48hr clearance process is clearly yet to manifest, even after several reforms were designed to this end.