Izuu's Turn

Ask me whether 2011 was good or bad, I would not have a definite answer. Why? It's difficult to say, given the madness that heralded the end of this year. Do not get me wrong, I am not talking solely about the senseless bombs being thrown around us as if they are Santa's gifts, but I am concerned about the general unfeeling attitude of the government of Nigeria to the plight of our people. There is nothing I will say here that has not been said before, especially by better wordsmiths. Yet, the people that rule us, pretend to have better understanding of the difficulties that have become our reality, but remain largely inactive. Was it not during OBJ's time, that this same Okonjo-Iweala claimed that the debt forgiveness dividends will be used to develop this-and-that sector? And, just a few years down the road, she has forgotten the kleptomaniac tendencies of many a Nigerian politician, either by selective amnesia or by omission. Now she has come again w