Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju In the end, we realise that nothing really belongs to us; not power, not life. Power is fragile; it can also be deadly. It shares properties with candle flames. I take this idea from Brandon Sanderson, author of 'The Way of Kings.' Sanderson thinks the lives of men are as brittle and lethal as candle flames. What you get is what you consciously worked for. And, it is no brainer that that thing that provides warmth can also burn if you increase the intensity. Sanderson says when left alone, candle flames "lit and warmed." When they are allowed to burn without control, "they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate." That is Godwin Emefiele and the enormous powers he wielded at the Central Bank of Nigeria. He was brought in in June 2014 as CBN governor to rearrange the bales in our strongrooms and illuminate the various dark rooms of the Nigerian economy. But, because for eight years we had a president who lacked the mental and physical energy for the driver's job he took, the CBN and its free-reining governor were soon 'encouraged' to set other agenda for themselves - and set Nigeria's economy ablaze.
The road Emefiele took
The road Emefiele took
The road Emefiele took
Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju In the end, we realise that nothing really belongs to us; not power, not life. Power is fragile; it can also be deadly. It shares properties with candle flames. I take this idea from Brandon Sanderson, author of 'The Way of Kings.' Sanderson thinks the lives of men are as brittle and lethal as candle flames. What you get is what you consciously worked for. And, it is no brainer that that thing that provides warmth can also burn if you increase the intensity. Sanderson says when left alone, candle flames "lit and warmed." When they are allowed to burn without control, "they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate." That is Godwin Emefiele and the enormous powers he wielded at the Central Bank of Nigeria. He was brought in in June 2014 as CBN governor to rearrange the bales in our strongrooms and illuminate the various dark rooms of the Nigerian economy. But, because for eight years we had a president who lacked the mental and physical energy for the driver's job he took, the CBN and its free-reining governor were soon 'encouraged' to set other agenda for themselves - and set Nigeria's economy ablaze.