Lacking a membership card of the Learned Brothers' Guild, I would not make so bold as to claim that a prima facie case has been established by The NEWS (July 14) - against the august Tribunal charged with adjudicating the governorship electoral claims in Osun State. As a layman, however, endowed with a basic capacity for smells, I would claim that, without a whiff of a doubt, a prime faecal odour is issuing from that embattled site, as if trailer loads of human waste have been deposited overnight on all approaches to that state. The stench from this latest cesspit of judicial iniquity has been wafted across the Atlantic and threatens to suffocate even total strangers unaccustomed to untreated ordure.

The Citizens for Nigeria (CFN) welcomes with optimism for the future of Nigeria, the attempt by the National Assembly to find ways through which the former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, has impoverished the nation. It is now public knowledge that the former President is nothing but a pretender, having helped himself, family and cohorts to loot the nation in his eight years in power. However, the CFN is also interested that the dragnet be spread so wide that all those who stole from the national treasury long before now, from anytime of possible record, be publicly scrutinized for fraud. The list should be long, and include all those retired generals, bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen living in unlimited influence and affluence.