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The ‘Little Devil’ in All of Us - Olusola Ojekunle

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I have watched with keen interest, how some opinion leaders and other Nigerians have been calling out the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the economic crises facing the nation, most especially the skyrocket price of foodstuffs and other consumables. I agree that the situation is so bad and it’s becoming unbearable every day. However, I will like to dwell on the causes of our precarious situation and acceptance of everyone’s actions and inactions that, ‘There is a little Devil in all of us’. Most of the commentators have opined their thoughts being beclouded by the emotions and pains we all go through, forgetting or mischievously leaving out how we got here. Our knowledge of where we are coming from will be of great help going forward. Of course this is not the right time to apportion blames. Yet we all need to reflect on the past decisions made by the Men in charge of affairs which affected our wellbeing. There was a regime that recklessly sold most of our common heritag