Nigeria: Accountability in Governance

4 February 2014

THE downside to being in public office in the U.S. is becoming an object of intense, and often irritating, highly intrusive and critical, media and public scrutiny. Your action and inaction invariably become subjects of serious debates, even from uninformed quarters and from people with less than noble intentions. What choice do you have? None.

Especially when it comes to the question of public officers being accountable for their deeds and misdeeds, it can at times be frightening how far the media can go to microscopically examine the balance-sheet of public officers. And, woe betide any of them who falls short of maintaining a clean slate. Ask a man called Bob McDonnell.

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