For three weeks up until Monday 15th April 2019, I spent my yearly vacation in the United Kingdom. In the middle of this vacation I was rudely awoken by the shock of two negative reports flashed in the London Metro newspaper. The first of these two negative reports that literally made front page was this outlandish claim by the octogenarian minister of Agriculture of Nigeria Mr. Audu Ogbeh that Nigerian upper class now orders their sharwama from the United Kingdom through daily delivery by the British Airways.
This dubious claim made most readers of that paper to have good laugh at us as a nation whereby the cabinet level ministers occupy their times with road side gossips. The story is a reminiscence of a fictional account in the book 'the beautiful ones are not yet born' authored by a Ghanaian novelist about some of the lavish lifestyles of the immediate post independence leaders of Ghana which actually led to the overthrow of the then government of Mr. Kwame Nkrumah. Currently, the wife of the dictator of Cameroon is known to be shopping in the West for her breakfasts.
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