Akin Osuntokun: The improbable banker and the unlikely President
I contend that it is absolutely possible to take the whistleblower saga out of the equation and still find sufficient cause to sanction the suspended CBN governor. Sanusi’s choice of opting to dispense with his terminal leave has no meaning other than daring the president. According to YNAIJA.COM , We were political and intellectual collaborators. Like many Nigerians I first took notice of him as a regular newspaper contributor. Back then he was an intellectual rebel in the political debate over the wild fire regionalist push for the enthronement of Sharia jurisprudence in the Northern Muslim states. He called to question the propriety and honesty of purpose of the introduction of Sharia especially the orthodox penal code in a context that does not fulfil the condition precedent. To convict an offender and proceed to exact the severe punishment presupposes the prerequisite of a society where no one is compelled to steal in order to assuage hunger and basic necessiti...