Yesterday, a national newspaper had what we call screaming headline on its front page. It isn’t that the paper didn’t have something to scream about everyday, but this time it was poised to shout off its head. Here is the headline: “Lamorde, EFCC boss, in soup.”
Wow! The uninitiated would think bulky Ibrahim Lamorde, the embattled boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is tumbling in a large cauldron of sizzling soup like okproko and bokoto. But that is not the case. The paper merely alleges that the Presidency is investigating serious allegations of malfeasance levelled against Lamorde.
Well this column will only allow a screaming guffaw to that news. For a Presidency that is anchored on anti-corruption, one thought the first place to start would have been the badly smudged anti-graft agencies of the old regime. Sitting in my small cubicle in Mushin, one can perceive the stench of some of these agencies wafting across the land. It is shocking EFCC is just being investigated now.
Can a dirty mop mop?