From the look of things, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) may kick-start the redemption in public service integrity that Nigerians have always craved for. Beginning with the whistle blown by the highly-respected news medium, Premium Times, on the dud NYSC certificate of former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and the latest revelation about the failure to undergo the compulsory one-year national service by the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, a purifying revolution may have begun with NYSC certificate as a flag-off.
Forgive this very harsh submission – we lack a sense of shame. We are a people who traded off our ability to be ashamed a very long time ago. As a student of history, I will draw the graph of this shamelessness from the time of the military strike of 1966. Ostensibly because they belonged to a feared and dreaded class, the military that came…
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