Looking at Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in handcuffs drew tears and ire from different camps. Depending on which side you are, seeing a once effervescent publicist looking gaunt, baleful, morose, miserable and melancholic cannot be something to sheer. Though, he tried to put up a show, beyond the façade is a subdued Metuh.

For weeks, if he has not broken his vow, he has been on hunger strike. Frustrated, he had attempted to shred his written statement before security agents. But most people vowed that Metuh could not hurt a fly. I have never seen him kill one too, but I suspect that he has become desperate under this peculiar circumstances and has lost his gentlemanliness.

What people working for the government know is that the harsh reality of today demands that N6.8bn 2016 budget has to be fun ded partly from stolen monies in the national treasury and other non-oil sectors.

Government says Metuh is blackmailing it by allegations of mistreatment. While we leave courts to impartially make pronouncements on his culpability or otherwise, Metuh is suffering by association. Most past administrators are politicians who conduct themselves as indolent, unreliable and savage.

When campaigning, they are like wolves in sheep’s clothing. We may live with the fantasy of them living properly or as people that are genuinely courteous and benign; people that we should vouch for, but the severity of our situation has become intolerably vile and we have learnt in a bitter way.

Like Peter Pan who believes that the only right he has when it comes to you is fairness, Nigerians demand that our politicians stop cheating and deceiving. They are trite and they are glib, but are unfair-minded rapists.

It’s an arduous task to find a modicum of truth or fairness in what they do. Those we often stick a label “Good People”, because we desperately want to believe that good still prevails over evil (as the child inside us believes), we are merely playing a spectacular game of make believe. For a government led by someone who wants to leave a legacy of transparency in governance and with the comportment of a fascist, it cannot be trial as usual!

For now, no one could vouch for Metuh until the court clears him. In the days ahead, we will see if men and women of goodwill trust him enough to stake their property worth N400m in bail and coincidentally the sum allegedly pocketed by Metuh to get him his freedom as trial continues.

Someone clairvoyantly passed judgement on the prosecution team treatment of Metuh. Taking over Lai Mohammed’s job of faulting everything the ruling party does, may require some tutoring. The Oro-born lawyer (minister of information) offered, but Metuh turned it down, thinking he could outpace Mohammed in every material particular.

But we are in a different setting. PMB anchored his campaign on three things and nobody disputed his assertion on insecurity, unemployment and corruption. All right thinking people feel there are correlations in Pius Anyim’s Centenary City project and the gully erosion uprooting houses in Mgbowo, Awka, Enugu-Ukwu, etc. Abdulrasheed Maina, it is believed, if he coughs out billions of pension funds, will service the Almajiris in the north and Falae and Ladoja, they think, are vicariously liable for the fate of the innocent and not so innocent ladies doing “runs” to pay for their wards’ education as well as, fend, house and feed their poverty-stricken parents and younger ones in the society.

With widespread insecurity, PMB has shouted himself hoarse over suffocating bribery and corruption, insisting that if we don’t kill these monsters, this country would go down. For those who would shout to high heavens that Metuh and others were targeted for public opprobrium, they should reflect on the experience of Tafa Balogun, former inspector general of police under Olusegun Obasanjo.

APC didn’t invent handcuffs. Its use has firm precedence in law and treatment of accused persons and people suspected of violent dispositions. Though, not a prelate fit for exhibition, Tafa Balogun’s ugliness was amplified by his appearance in court in handcuffs.

Metuh was not PDP spokesperson when Tafa was on trial but his party adopted the Gestapo-style of dealing with economic crimes investigation and prosecution. Nigerians are not looking at his pitiable high profile suspects in handcuffs. They want answers to welfare issues, accountability and restoration of public infrastructures. With revelations so far, any fair means make people account for their alleged larceny is welcome.

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Metuh is just been hypocritically humble, he is a wolve in sheep clothing.
A man that could quietly collect a 400m meant for war and still rant on the pages of national daily about Witch hunting and dictatorship by the present administration is capable of anything.
Stay strong for ur Nigerians for now Olise Metuh cos pretty soon you will reap the consequences of your actions.

Metuh has really been subdued. I looked at his picture BEFORE and AFTER and shook my head.