The TRUTH Conquers all

About seven years ago when I first heard of the acronym SARS, during a tête-à-tête with some friends at a café in Lagos, I felt like a stranger in Moscow. As the chat continued, I was able to understand the meaning of the police unit as Special Anti-Robbery Squad . Expectedly, the name defines the core goal of the squad’s operations – to work against ALL robbery-related matters. Also, if the name of the police team is anything to go by, then raiding of the citizens should never be a practice of the unit. After all, the name of the group is not Special Citizens Raiding Squad. Practically in the past half a decade, anti-robbery operations are hardly the concerns or interests of SARS officers in Lagos. Innocent residents and hikers are now the main goals of their raids. In several locations in the state, the common man is now a prey while SARS officers remain the legal predators. In my experience, more than 35 persons who I know or heard of had been unjustifiably arrested by SAR...

In 2015 when the present occupant of governorship office in Lagos State was campaigning for the office, the main emphasized façade that was packaged, jingled, published, publicised and broadcast about him to his supporters and those who voted for him to be the governor is ACCOUNTANCY. The headline of the news then was this: “He is an accountant!” But what he would be accountable for and to whom he shall be accountable were not stated. For now, let us ignore the word accountability . What exactly is the meaning of ACCOUNTANCY in socio-economic and political development perspectives? In simple description, within the sphere of socio-economics, it means the quality or intellectual skill of making logical policy that leads to the most prudent use and maximization of resources; a decision-making process that MUST keep the society and the economy moving. In modern-day politics , ACCOUNTANCY does not entail inflow and outflow of cash alone; it mainly involves governance decision that would...