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Reading the context and content of her resignation letter, I felt sorry for Kemi, an unwitting victim of a system rigged for incompetence and wired to serve the greed of some miscreants who ensure that the system never experiences seamless operations.

 

 

 

Anyone listening to Kemi speak would know that she did not grow up here in Nigeria. That much she confirmed in her letter.

She had her first Nigerian passport at the age of 34!

What this means is that as at 22 when she graduated, she was technically NOT a bona fide Nigerian citizen!

She was BRITISH!

 

I am not a lawyer and hold no brief for her but if she technically did not become a Nigerian citizen until 34, should the law on compulsory service for anyone under 30 have been retroactively applied?

 

I would like to believe that this was the basis of her applying for an exemption!

 

Kemi Adeosun leaves Nigerian public service space with her head held high.

 

She has my respect for honorably resigning, one of the very few public officials to ever do so instead of being kicked out with ignominy, a of our collective systemic dysfunctionality which should have engaged our attention instead of the largely  that attended this whole saga.

 

To those who may be clinking glasses tonight at her resignation, your victory is ! 

Today, Kemi returned to Britain, the first place she knew as home, signposting to foreign-born Nigerian diasporans who would like to return home to serve their fatherland that this is a land that eats up its good inhabitants.