You lost your mum’s money which is N15,000. She gave 20 strokes of cane. Your dad came back and gave you 10 more. Later you saw the money on the floor at the backyard. Will you return the money? ?
“He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). This is the single unbroken rule of Western engagement with African leadership. This principle applies as much to African heads of state as it does to the powers that back them. Steal for the West, and you become an “astute politician.” Steal from them, or worse, steal for your country, and you become a monster in need of removal. ...