Nigeria: Is Zamfara Nigeria's 'Mackenna's Gold'?

20 October 2020

Introduction

The famous Hollywood Western, 'Mackenna's Gold' (released in 1969) might seem a somewhat inappropriate metaphor for the controversy - if not furore - generated by the purported offer by the Zamfara State Government to sell gold, reportedly extracted by artisanal miners in the State, to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) penultimate week. That would be a fair charge, but the comparisons are not altogether far-fetched, if only because of the healthy dose of incredulity common to both plots - one on legal and constitutional grounds, and the other, entirely factual (paradoxically, as fiction).

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