ONE day, one trouble best describes our experience as a nation of peoples in our country called Nigeria. By the way, One Day One Trouble is a popular Nigerian Nollywood comedy-drama movie on the life a man trying to survive doing various jobs while dealing with a cantankerous wife, until a rich woman enters his life and everything went topsy-turvy. I also think that movie title was inspired by a novel written by Anezi Okoro, a professor of skin diseases, titled One Week, One Trouble, which depicted the escapades of a young boy just admitted into a secondary boarding school.
So, our latest trouble or drama (pardon me, it’s actually a trouble belonging to the president and his men in government) is the one relating to the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, whose Director-General is one Prince Matthew Adeniyi Adeyemi. I am not going to bore you with the details of this particular shenanigan; we all know the latest about this grand sakamanje. Remember my definition of sakamanje? It is a Nigerian street word that describes doing something by sleight of hand, or brain, if you like, with an outcome that looks magical.
Or how else does one describe an agency in the Presidency, with offices in the Federal secretariat, and funds allocated to it in the current budget, and allegedly operating accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria? And government tells us that it is a fake agency, that the director-general is an impersonator? Sakamanje!!!
