“The fight against corruption mobilizes all of us because we want to do away with evil and injustice. But we should remember that casting the bad into the sea does not imply the sudden appearance on our shores of the good that we need.”

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, titled his 1946-1965 memoirs, Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years. He explained that “The inventor and embodiment of this deliberate, populist corruption of ‘peculiar mess’ was, appropriately, a certain Ibadan shon of de shoil (son of the soil) by the name of Adelabu.”

President Buhari turned down the idea of bail-out at first. I must confess to being one of those who thought a bail-out was inevitable – given the empty purses most states were holding. However, it was my position that the states arrived at the same position through different routes. Some took sensible risks which backfired when the price of crude oil tumbled and the monthly revenue allocation from Abuja declined dangerously.

IN the first part of this article, we met Brand Buhari: a Nigerian leader reputed as “Mr Integrity”. Even his most ardent traducers are reluctant to accuse him of being corrupt for fear that such an accusation might fall flat or out of line with what the public has come to believe.

Friday, September 11, Lubumbashi, 9am: T P Mazembe arrive the stadium named after them to train for the must win CAF Champions League encounter against Moroccans Moghreb Tetouane.