Nigeria’s real witches and wizards By Okey Ndibe Most Nigerian politicians deserve the tag of vicious “witches” and “wizards.” Their specialty, these politicians, is to fatten themselves by creating collective misery for other Nigerians. Obsessed with cornering more and more of the nation’s resources for themselves, they hardly have time to raise their heads from the trough long enough to notice the millions of fellow citizens who have become hideously emaciated as a result of prolonged hunger. Truth be told, most Nigerian politicians are unconscionable sadists who gleefully live off the blood of dispossessed citizens, the men and women who at night drop to their mats in air-filled stomachs and awake dizzy from famishment. Yet these pauperized hordes must drag themselves out of the shacks and hovels that serve as their homes and report to work as drivers, bus conductors, cleaners, civil servants, teachers, even doctor...
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