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SARS : TACKLE THE SYSTEM NOT THE PEOPLE

SARS : TACKLE THE SYSTEM NOT THE PEOPLE BY AGADA IKECHUKWU In the sporting world, it is ultra vires and a total ban for a footballer to disobey the unwanted red card of the officiating referee in a football competition regardless of whether he is right or not. The footballer exists the field at the lifting of the card by the referee in obedience and loyalty to the spirit of sportsmanship and stipulated rules of sporting engagements. Politics is made up of government and institutions. Both of them are like siamese twins that can rarely exist without each other. While government functions like an older brother, institutions takes the younger seat in most of the decision taking. Behind the government and institutions as siblings of one family is the larger masquerade; their biological parent which is boldly occupied by the masses lending credence to the office of the people as the highest office in any society. The above scenario typifies a clinical anatomy of the love lost between th...

TALE OF TWO KINGS

TALE OF TWO KINGS               BY AGADA IKECHUKWU Once upon a time, there were two kings who ruled two kingdoms. The older septuagenarian king who occupied a higher stool of the mother kingdom. The Ist Class Traditional Ruler chanced on mother luck by successfully dethroning his predecessor like a matador, who goes into the ring, and the bull of stasis is taken out with his exertions. With a reputation of five star military profile who has zero tolerance for corruption, became circumstantial love object of his subjects. So awe-inspiring was his personage that he became the toast of the drivers of the economy as well as the political class. He was virtually courted by all and sundry that his presence automatically added glamour to every social event. He lived in a mansion akin to Abraham’s heavenly bosom which became a mecca of sorts because of the number of visitors that called daily to catch a glimpse of the ar...