Takeaways from British Prime Minister’s debacle

Once a while, it is refreshing, even therapeutic, to turn away from one country’s diminishing fortunes and state of siege in order to take a look at what is going on in other lands. To do this is not just an intellectual adventure, but an attempt to prospect for comparative lessons and takeaways. It is so easy to be overwhelmed and sorrowful concerning Nigeria’s current low ebb when you consider, for instance, that over a week after Kuje Correctional Centre was attacked and over 600 prisoners freed, nobody in position of responsibility had thought it wise to either educate the public or resign over an event that, if we stretch it, could easily have been the invasion and takeover of Nigeria. Notice that as terrible and volcanic as the incident was, the politicians are having a ball, wallowing in their private fortunes and imaginaries over how they will govern the country and presumably share the spoils of office, even if the nation under them is slipping into a huge hell hole.