When Government Governs: A Private Note by Don Kenobi

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From Onyeka Onwenu’s landmark 1983 documentary, Nigeria: The Squandering of Riches, to the present day, more than four decades have passed.

Yet the questions it raised remain painfully familiar.

When Government Governs: A Private Note is a reflection on corruption, gofment pikin, squander-mania, and what I call organised extraction dressed up as governance.

Nigeria may indeed need restructuring. But structure alone cannot cure a culture of entitlement, impunity and incompetence.

Perhaps the more fundamental restructuring must happen in our culture — in what we expect from government, what we tolerate from public officials, and what those entrusted with power believe government is actually for.

Because good government, before anything else, should be committed to one simple purpose:

Making life work better for ordinary people.

Read the full reflection here:

When Government Governs: A Private Note:

https://donkenobi.blogspot.com/2026/08/when-government-governs-private-note-to_01459956785.html