Ethiopia-Nigeria prisoner transfer and resurgence of anti-Igbo sentiments

Those   that snigger that Nigeria is a joke may not be entirely wrong. They have their reasons. This is a system that twists opportunity to problem and vice-versa. Consider how elections that should ordinarily serve as celebration of democracy and moments of selecting new set of leaders or returning performing ones always turn out war among the people. Look at how bad governance, which has boxed the people in the corner and should have galvanised them into a common force, is being manipulated to divide them, while the rapacious rulers bond in maltreating them. The same divisive narrative of “us and them’, is being extended to the recent prisoner transfer agreement between Nigeria and the...