A lot was said last week about Aisha Buhari’s book launch, intended as a means to raise funds for the families of the Chibok girls, Buni Yadi boys and other victims of insurgency.

On Election Day 2015, Nigerians decided they preferred order to chaos and seemed united in the belief that we must finally have a country where hard work and merit, rather than looting public funds, amount to something. This war is not about APC or PDP, we must learn in this country to dissociate facts and logic from ethno-religious sentiment and party affiliations.

Not enough attention is being paid by the media or even by Nigerians themselves, to the deliberate acts of sabotage from certain anti-reform interests who do not wish to see the Buhari administration do well because it is a direct threat to their own crooked means of livelihood.

LAST week through this column I discussed social mobility as a means to tackle corruption: if talent and merit determined success, corruption which exists and is facilitated in part because the wrong sort of individuals have access to government positions, etc., would be lessened. But why are people corrupt in Nigeria? It is important to tackle this question beyond the obvious answer, being greed and a desire for an increase in economic clout or status.

Quite a few people requested “further reading” after last week’s article. I recommend To Kill a Mockingbird, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Harper Lee for anyone interested in understanding the rise of Donald Trump, the workings of the South in America, racial (or, in our climes ethnic) politics, economic backwardness, a feudal system where poor Whites blame poor Blacks for their misfortunes while ignoring the White chieftains who uphold a medieval “Rankadede” system whereby patronage and keeping literacy levels low ensures a profitable arrangement goes unchallenged. Politics all over the world is basically the same.