Dr. John Abaelu is now nearly 80 years old but you can literally feel the lump of bitterness in his throat. He was the first Nigerian Managing Director of Chase Merchant Bank. When we talk the images in my head are same as when I finished reading the manuscript of the autobiography of the first Group Managing Director of the NNPC Chief FRA Marinho. All speak volumes about the cost of impunity in Nigeria. Abaelu and Marinho are two dignified decent and well educated professionals who now enter the autumn of their being questioning the nature of the contract between the citizen and the state in Nigeria and the reckless use of power by agents of the state to destroy careers and damage lives. When Abaelu was hounded with innuendo and outright lies and a gullible media and blood thirsty citizens cheered like the mob at the hanging of ‘witches’ in ancient Europe, I wrote, 30 years ago, in an Oped in the Guardian titled: ‘Chasing Shadows at Chase’ asking for evidence on the insinuations that ...
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