Can "government Catch Government"?
IN one of his satirical books – Soza Boy, if my memory serves me right – the Ogoni writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa (who was brutally executed in November 1995 by General Sani Abacha, the corrupt Nigerian dictator) wrote that corruption continued to exist in Nigeria “because government cannot catch government”. I laughed at that statement when I first came across it around 1986. And I was reminded of Saro-Wiwa's words the other day as I watched an extraordinary video on Joy News, in which a very brave reporter, Erastus Asare Donkor, and his crew, were harassed by armed military men, whilst th...