Emmanuel Onwubiko: Government a basketful of scams
SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Emmanuel Onwubiko: Government a basketful of scams EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO is head of the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) and one time National commissioner of the NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF NIGERIA. “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’. ADVERTISEMENT “The fall of the Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the co