Nigeria: N5.4 Billion Scam - is Elumelu a Victim of His Own Contrivance?

15 May 2009
opinion

SENATOR Joseph McCarthy was once the most celebrated Senator of his era. That was during the most feverish ideological battle between the Communist East and the so-called free market democracies of the West led by the United States. At that time, as well documented, for any civil servant to be accused as a Communist agent in the United State, it was the equal of getting labelled as a mass murderer or a traitor of the worst kind.. It was the surest way of attracting public hate and disdain. It was far more serious than standing accused of stealing money meant for electrification in today's Nigeria.In any case, Joseph MaCarthy, born on November 14th, 1908 on a farm in the township of Grand Chute, Wisconsin and the fifth of seven children, was an adroit accuser of his fellow citizens as communists.

MaCarthy, a Republican, got voted into the US Senate in 1947 using bizare campaign mudslinging tactics. His first three years in the US congress were very uneventful. Then suddenly he blossomed into national limelight in 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the US State Department. - the equivalent of staff of our Aso Villa

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