The emergence of populism as a political force in our country calls to question the thinking behind the governance pattern or model and some of its favoured tools for governing. Populism, for instance, must see the task of governance in very different terms to that different from the advocates and major actors in government.
On October 18, the acting comptroller General of Immigration, Mr Isa Idris went undercover and caught corrupt officers in the act of fleecing Nigerian. We can announce happily that the Deputy Comptroller General of the Lagos State command, Ibrahim Lima, has been removed along with N.J Dashe and Adeola Adesokan of the Ikeja and festac town office. One Nov 3rd, Gov Babangida Zuhum of Borno state went covert and caught medical officials corruptly extorting hapless indigenes of between N8000 to N10,000 for treatments thy should be free.
As members of the 4th estate, we are constrained to ask where do we go for these range of political stances that tend to popularize government officials. Should governance and populism co-habit, and for that matter, can appealing to ordinary people be a bad thing conducting that there is an existing order which populism tends to dismantle?
Shouldn’t felons be punished according to be established laws.
