Another politician, this time, the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has a new book out titled, “Burden of Service: Reminiscences of Nigeria’s former A
ttorney General.” Typical of these publications, the media houses get advance copies and publish some of their most controversial contents to stimulate audience interest ahead of the public presentations. Given that what was excerpted from Adoke’s book so far has not as been provocative as previous similar publications, I doubt it will generate the heated exchanges one has come to expect of this growing body of political literature.
Given all those, one wonders why the political class churns out books. Who is their reading public? Relative to our nation’s potential, there is not much going on by way of a reading culture. The same leadership class that loves to publish books is also the one that has actively overseen the deprecation of the education sector, sabotaged intellectualism, and banalised the acada culture by publicly using PhD holders and professors to run their errands.
None of them ever admits to stealing money, making corrupt deals, or undermining Nigeria in any way. Yet, whenever they leave office, Nigeria is almost always worse off. A politician serves under a corrupt government, leaves and writes about becoming “An Accidental Public Servant” or tells us that “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous.” Some others manage to publish theirs with funny titles such as “Conscience and History” or “Burden of Service.
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