SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE
Lauretta Onochie Nigerians who are lucky to be alive have something to celebrate today. And that’s about all they have to celebrate, yes being alive, some barely. But that’s where the celebration ends. Except of course on Facebook where many Nigerians celebrated the good old days of Awolowo, Azikiwe and Balewa. Since the military incursion in our national polity, it has been a story of one woe after another. The military were high-handed and it is generally believed that corruption was made solid in our nation by the men in uniform. Nigerians suffered human rights abuses, and lived with the effects of corruption in the hands of these men in uniform. Civil rights groups around the nation, began to agitate for a speedy return to democracy. Who would forget Nigerians like Wole Soyinka, Gani Fawehinmi, Balarabe Musa, Chuba Okadigbo, Beko Ransome Kuti and his brother, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who used the Afro beat musical genre to hold the military to account. The military succu