Are journalists in Ogun State not worthy of appointments in the government of their state? Why is it that successive occupants of Igbein Hill Government House since 1999 (that was when I began active journalism in the State) have not been looking their ways for engagement, especially as media and information managers?

Policy reserval is a disease common to our governments, military or civilian, since independence in 1960. It has been the bane of development in a way that rubbishes all the positives of perspective planning.

The telephone at my New Rochelle, New York residence rang one afternoon in late September 1990. The familiar voice at the other end simply said, “Joe, I dey your town, o!” “Gus”, I answered, a bit surprised as I had not had prior intimation of his visit. “Welcome,” I said. “How now?” “We dey!” He replied. “Shey you go come house?” I quickly followed. “How I go come New York and no come your house?,” He responded. “How long you dey town for?” “Only a few days,” he answered. “Okay. We go arrange. Where you dey stay?” “For Helmsley Palace”. “Welcome,” I repeated, “I go come see you.”

Characteristically, an average liar also suffers a combination of two things- great deal of verbal hemorrhage and loss of memory. For the first lapse, he talks so much that he often colours his points so much that he is never comfortable until every word he utters is well embellished beyond what it ordinarily should be.

The fever that is raging in Nigeria todayis “Wikileaks”. Yet as entertaining as these secret communications are the truth is that if you believe everything that you read in Julian Assange’s “leaks” then you will believe anything. I say this based on my own personal experiences.