I agree about the violence but the way I see it, the carefully chosen targets have no means of matching my state-sponsored brutality and are hated enough by the public that I feel pretty good about the odds. I mean, do you really think anyone outside his family or his village people would object to Andrew Yakubu's public execution? Remember him? Caught with 9.7 million dollars cash? Had the gall to argue that he could not be prosecuted in Kano because the money was looted in Abuja?! Still has not been imprisoned?!!!! What about Buruji Kashamu, a known drug baron still wanted by the United States to this day? If you've watched or read Orange is the New Black, he's "Alhaji", the drug baron that employed the protagonist and her lover before they went to jail. Is he in jail? No, he's a sitting senator from Ondo State to this day as I am typing this 😠. Or Babangida (yes, his age is no exemption, fuck that guy?)
I am pretty sure there'd be standing ovations for them and others like them being brought to final justice.
No, I stand by every word. They can bribe their way out of prison, they can enjoy house arrest, they can enjoy exile and they have no right. Monstrous consequences are required to move the needle, intimidatory ultraviolence that they cannot bribe their way out of like they always do, to tell every would-be kleptocrat politician to find a new line of work unless they are really there to work for the country.
And, as I said in the article, my real self is not ruthless enough to actually go through with it but this is all theory so whatever.
You are also completely correct about how far Igboland has fallen since the Civil War. The ingenuity and resolve displayed by our people was mind-boggling and it infuriates me that we are no longer capable of replicating that; because as you said, our reward system is bullshit but also because those guys were educated by the best and our present generations, by and large? Weren't.