BRITAIN has expressed regret for the abuse of Kenyans by colonial forces during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency and announced compensation for 5,228 survivors, but stopped short of apologising.

I WANT to take this opportunity to respond to an article published in the Tuesday May 28, 2013 edition of the Vanguard Newspaper, captioned “Group Writes Okorocha on Ekemmegbu Oha – Afor Uzoagba Road.”

In the 35 years leading to 2005, crude oil exploration, production and export provided the only talking point on Nigeria in international business of scale. Over this period, the Nigerian economic outlook was impacted mainly by global politics and market events. The ripples generated in Nigeria, positive or negative, were too weak to travel far and wide enough to impact the country outlook in the estimation of the international community and systems that controlled global markets, except when the ripples were ultra-negative. We were susceptible to external shocks transmitted through the conduit of international oil market.

The negative impact of corruption on the socio-economic development of any country is not in doubt.Corruption is a monster that renders everything in its path prostrate.

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed may have redefined every aspect of the city’s development but the chaotic transport system in the nation’s capital was a major deficit. That was before Monday June 3, 2013 when the Minister who fancies the city getting into the World’s top 20 in the near future, unveiled a new transport policy for the FCT.