Vanguard News Translate Sad return to broken chains (3) On By Eric Teniola The second part of this piece published last week highlighted the nation-wide celebration that followed the granting of $20 billion debt relief to Nigeria in 2005. THE four states are among the richest states in the country. I grew up in an age that insists that he who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. It was an idiom used by the American Nationalist, Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706-April 17, 1790). Borrowing makes our lives unfortunate, but we are the ones who borrow, so we face problems simultaneously. To borrow means ‘to take and use something that belongs to somebody else, and return it to them at a later time. Does this action lead to unpleasurable consequences? Borrowing is a doomed cause.