The Attempt To Wipe Out Institutional Memory

THE country as a whole is in dire straits, the new Federal Government imaginatively using all the available tools monetary and fiscal for a reboot.

A lot will depend on the performance of the state governments as sub-nationals and parliamentary time available to the State Houses of Assembly to make their inputs is scarce. It beats the imagination that the State of Osun House of Assembly is allocating scarce parliamentary time to the repeal of the Act establishing for Osun a State Anthem, flag and Crest.

It reveals a totalitarian mindset in which mechanisms are used to airbrush the inconvenient out of the picture and erase the institutional memory. We have in the use of such instruments a repudiation of not just historical evolution but of the democratic ethos of this and disturbingly of cultural mores.

The Act repealed represents a needed fundamental fight back to •Concluded on page 3