President Goodluck Azikiwe Ebele Jonathan is not an Azikiwe and he is not also a Caesar. He does not have the political skills or sagacity of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. And if he were a Caesar he would not have one Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The man has a lean and hungry look – just like Cassius and he thinks too much. Now listen to what Julius Caesar had to say about Cassius in William Shakespeare’s play, “Julius Caesar.” When he sighted Cassius he turned to Mark Anthony and said: “Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.” He could have been talking about Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the czar of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The best man to run the Central Bank in the history of this country. Not because he has come up with sound policies – far from it. But because he looks so hungry and lean that it is difficult to convince any country in the world that our economy is doing well. Which, incidentally helps the country to acquire loans and grants because you could see good old Sanusi without remembering Somalia (if you are more imaginative, your mind would start playing the music, “We are the world). So you feel some humanity and decide that the lean and hungry man being the head of a country’s Central Bank means the country is hungry. Sanusi does not help matters himself. Because he is lean and hungry-looking, he believes that the cause of all problems (including rainstorms and floods) is poverty. He has already declared publicly that hunger is the cause Boko Haram use expensive Sports Utility Vehicles in suicide missions. That is the bizarre part of “Sanuconomics.” But there is more to Sanuconomics than meets the eye. Sanusi is not only the Central Bank Governor, he sees the Central Bank as some kind of eerie 37th State with him as the Governor. And sometimes when he is caught in flights of fantasy he imagines himself bigger than the Governor and as the President and Commander-in-Chief of his own state of mind; an Emperor who must be obeyed. Who could sit in his parlour watching television and decide to disburse a N150 million on causes impulsively. Not his personal money, not even the Central Bank’s money – but the tax payers’ money. A bunch of aged actors and comic characters summoned him to the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly and like all adventurers huffed and ranted so that the right-thinking members of the society would think that they are doing some serious business in Abuja. They reminded me of Chief Zebrudaya Okorigwe Nwogbo, alias 4.30 of TV sitcom,The New Masquarade, ranting at his wife, Ovularia Peterside, before asking her to bring him a plate of akpu and ogbono soup.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:19:46 +0000
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