Action Movie?

When Nuhu Ribadu (pictured left), Nigeria's anti-corruption czar read the riot act on corrupt Nigerian leaders at a lecture in Lagos on Thursday, I wasn't quite sure what he wanted his listening publics to make of it. But am sure there were questions in the minds of Nigerians on how far he would go, if he made any big hits at all.
He had said his commission would surprise corrupt leaders. “We respect people but there is no reason why people should respect a thief. If the leaders reduce themselves to cheap goat, we will discipline them,” he pointed out. But would the percieved selective nature of EFCC's arrests in some quarters take on broader significance in the light of the upcoming elections of 2007?
It seems that the answers might have begun to unfold if the lead story from Saturday's edition of Thisday http://www.thisdayonline.com/ is anything to go by. Mohammed Babangida's arrest and the connection with Mike Adenuga's previous arrest will no doubt generate a lot of media pages in the days to come.
At this early stages of Mr Ribadu's discipline putsch, his words and more importantly actions will be closely followed.
I will be glued to the proceedings of the action movie that will hopefully unfold from Ribadu's scripts in the days ahead. The hope is that it will be a major box office hit raking in sanitising revenues for our polity without any unnecessary selective focusing of the heated 'discipline'.