Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), has blamed the Federal Government for the controversies that have trailed Professor Chinua Achebe's new literary work, There Was a Country, stating that it had failed in its crucial duty as a repository of information, data, records and archives, since historical records are indispensable tools for policy development.
Fashola, who was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa, held at Brown University, Providence in Rhode Island, the United States of America, last Friday said if the Federal Government had lived up to its billing in this area, it would have been in a position to confirm or disapprove of some of the facts in Achebe's personal account with a degree of authority.
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