By Gabriel Omonhinmin
I spent a larger part of my adolescent years in the Nigerian public service and as such, it is only natural I cannot completely separate myself from the happenings in that sector, even though I voluntarily retired from public service in 2009 when I realized I could no longer stomach the rot in the service.
Since then, I have struggled very hard within me to ignore the happenings in the service and the decadence which has continued to grow worse in the federal public service. But as much as I tried, I found myself behaving just the way and manner Nehemiah, the son of Hachalliah did in 444 B.C. with regard to the problems of the Israelites of old. Even though Nehemiah was a comfortable cup bearer to a king in a foreign land, he could hardly ignore the plights of the Jewish people that had escaped captivity and those who were left behind in Jerusalem.
Any surprise, 100 years after he led his people to repair the broken walls of Jerusalem with Ezra, they provided the much required leadership for the people of Israel.
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