You may also believe, as one superman film was promoted, that if you see the movie you will believe a man can fly. I was not one for believing those but I once met Nigerian public servants who almost could fly without capes. They were the superheroes of Nation building. Their types are sadly so scarce today.
In this vast wasteland of people parading themselves as leaders in the quest for plunder, it is so very easy for consciousness to be fixated in search of capes and lose sight that we have had heroes amongst us.The recent passing of a super patriot and pioneer public sector Architect, Chief Fola Alade, brought this quickly back to me and I began to remember them from researching my PhD thesis about 1981.
It was obviously not a shortage of textile materials that saved the superheroes from the awkward fashion statement of dorning capes, but those who wore the right goggles could see the capes, that knowledge, love of country and hard work strung across the shoulders of these men sometimes called super permanent secretaries. Like night vision goggles you saw these men only with lenses that pulled aside their humility.
The remarkable Ime Ebong presiding over tireless planners of enormous courage and outstanding intellect who manned the planning department, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, before retirement and Anambra politics made of him a villager living in the city, but never short of capacity to see the tree from the forest; John Odigie-Oyegun, before APC chairmanship in retirement exhausted him as he watched the democratization of mediocrity from his window, a cruel punishment, and even the ‘younger’ bright sports...
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