Nigeria: Jonathan's Performance Contract - Another Tale of the Absurd

29 August 2012
opinion

Just when you think this government will quit its inanities and get hold of itself, it comes up with another foolishness that leaves you convinced that it's yet to know in what direction it wants to go.

President Goodluck Jonathan last week introduced a strange ritual we hear he shopped from some foreign country (France?) that required a signed commitment by his ministers to perform. In other words, the President made his ministers enter into a contract with him that committed them to perform or be fired.

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