Why Benson Okoronkwo at 70 Agrees with Fela’s ‘Authority Stealing’
Benson Okoronkwo has remained an unelected but permanent parliamentarian, historian and provocateur in the Nigerian-American Diaspora. Chido Nwangwu writes on how Okoronkwo agrees with late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s indictment of Nigerian rulers/leaders for criminally using their “authority” to steal, pillage and destroy the resourceful country of Nigeria.
Inspirational music and messages usually travel across generations, cultures and climes.
I think that the cascading toll of insecurity, kidnappings and escalating poverty have since combined with Nigeria’s peripatetic leadership to give its citizens this shameful agony, wickedness and corruption-madness, which the great, late music and political genius, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, characterized as “Authority Stealing”!
There are millions of Nigerians at the “home country” and thousands of Nigerians in the diaspora who agree with this critical assessment.
