I have always been fascinated by the actions and inactions of government, be it at the federal level, the state level, or the local level. My father, the late Chief J. L. Omigbodun, was involved in governance at the local level in the 1950s as a part-time chairman of the Osogbo District Council.

I often wondered then why persons, who called to see Chief Omigbodun at home about district council matters, felt that their business was so important that he should break his afternoon sleep to see his visitors. I am a lot wiser now. When I started to have contact with government, I discovered that documents generated in the course of government business are kept in files marked confidential, secret and other terminologies that are meant to imply superiority to secret.

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