"Those days, when you hear that somebody is a permanent secretary, you would know that such a person is an embodiment of experience, competence and intelligence. "But, what do we have today?
"When you go to other countries, you see what I am saying. If they can go back to God and ask for wisdom like Solomon did, things will change for better." She also absolved the police but blamed the government squarely for the ugly trend.
And when crimes happen, there's no guarantee that the response will be adequate. Victims say they often face secondary harassment by police or health care workers.
"It was one of my colleagues who gave me this new strategy, and it has been working for me. By 8am or so when they open, I'll be among the first five or six to buy," he said.
They know their terrain more than the police, so they should assist the police by giving them useful information to maintain law, order and security of property and people's lives."
My friend later told me about the new process of using a gas cylinder. That's what I am using now. "I just bought the cylinder and a new carburetor and I am now enjoying the system.
"It's a difficult situation for us, for me, especially because I'm the one who let the team down. But the team was very good, I think it was because of me that we didn't win this game."
He only said he would get back to me but he never did. "On Monday evening, someone sent as an advance party by the LFF called me and said his team would be arriving on Tuesday by noon.
After I became newly born again and we were taught to pay tithes, I laughed and said in my mind, "These people do not know that I am a mathematician. If 100% is not enough for me, how can 90% be enough after I have paid 10% as tithes?
When asked why, he said, "Alliance dey fast, na there I dey work before. Their own na just one week stuff." Asked why he left Alliance, he said: "Mayor no dey work again. You know, e get the time wey he come do some kind thing.
"So, for me, it is only when we have a parliamentary system in place that the states can become more viable. Only then, will the states begin to harness their resources.
"When talking about tax reforms, is it a matter between the North and the West? Let me warn that Nigerians are no longer ready to sit down and watch the legacies their forefathers left behind to perish.
Those who know politics know what I am saying. But if you do not give Peter Obi the presidential ticket, you lose his supporters. It is as simple as that.