About two weeks ago, a Nigerian lawyer, Femi Fani-Kayode, claimed that Frederick Lugard, and his wife, Flora Shaw, who amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria into present day Nigeria, were Satanists and thus gave the new country which came into being in 1914 a satanic foundation. This, in his opinion, is the reason Nigeria has "refused to develop."
In case Mr Fani-Kayode does not know it yet, Nigeria's
'refusal' to develop stems from "a failure of leadership," in the
immortal words of the late China Achebe, the legendary Nigerian novelist.
It is this failure of leadership that has driven the populace into the hands of
Nigeria's jet-setting (pun intended) pastors. The protectorates which Lord
Lugard merged to create today's Nigeria was an economic move. Many countries
have had worse beginnings and are among the richest and most prosperous today.
The leadership of Nigeria have always mismanaged the petrodollars that have
accrued from Nigeria's vast oil resources.
Mr Fani-Kayode is from a privileged background; his father was a very successful lawyer and had a brief stint as a politician during Nigeria's first few post-independence years. It is therefore no surprise that he is unable to identify with the suffering of tens of millions of Nigerians having been coddled all his life. He was a federal minister of culture and tourism, and later aviation, and did nothing worthy of mention while he was in office. Maybe Satan hampered his most concerted efforts. Did I fail to mention that Mr Fani-Kayode is a christian?
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