EDITORIAL: Curiouser And Curiouser
When puzzled or she could not decipher whatever was happening the exclamation from the fictional Alice in Wonderland is that “ it is getting curiouser and Curiouser.”
Alice in Wonderland every toddler knows is a children’s book but on occasions, life imitates fiction and even tragic – Comedy. A good recent example is the reversal of the government over the Prerogative of Mercy list. We must be grateful for the reversal.
Had the list not been reversed, it would have portrayed Nigeria unfairly as a nation in moral decline. The list in some instances made it look as if in Nigeria crime could pay. It is a very low ebb for the nation. It must not end there, the committee should be disbanded and a public enquiry instituted. There is something unsavoury about the list and some participants must be made to render account.
Transferring the function of the committee elsewhere is not good enough. A new framework must be which will be driven by civil society in it’s widest definition anchored on transparency. The absence of transparency and the refusal to give civil society a leading role is leading to disaster after disaster this belittles and it should stop!
