One notable similarity between Nigeria and Turkey is that the government control the media. Ordinary people with different views or who refuse to accept mediocrity as norm are seen as terrorist and silenced while the real terrorists, some government officials and politicians who milk the state dry, roam freely. The government say they spend N14,000 per day on each prisoner in Nigeria, budget billions of Naira yearly for the State House Clinic and still take the next available fligh t to UK or US to treat cough and cold because the Clinic has no paracetamol. This is not the time for deception. Nigeria is in recession. A society that spend so much on prisoners and so little on her law abiding citizens is unfair and cruel. And they are sending the wrong signal. It is telling the poor Nigerian that it is better to commit crime and then be thrown in luxury called prison than stay away from crime and be hungry. The media does not have the right to investigate. In Nige...
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