The magic of scamsidy
By Adekunle Adekoya THE word, scam, is generally understood here, what with an army of people, mostly youths, whose business is scamming fellow citizens. As Nigerians, we all have heard and read about the word, subsidy, too many times. It is a regularly recurring word when petroleum products and their supply is being discussed. With no credentials in lexicography, I have simply joined the two words to arrive at SCAMSIDY, in the unshakeable belief that subsidy and its administration is a scam. Back in 1978-79, I was a young secondary school leaver that had secured employment as an auxilliary teacher at Egba-Owode Grammar School, Owode, headquarters of Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area in Ogun State. One day, in Owode, a magician was holding a show on the playgrounds of one of the town’s primary schools. He called himself Seven-Seven, claiming to have trained under Twins Seven-Seven much earlier. That day, Seven-Seven was on the stage mounted on the school playfield. One of his fi...