We all heard about the Director in Kogi State civil service who committed suicide after being owed for 11 months. Another civil servant in Kogi was shown on social media weeping over his dead daughter whose hospital bills he could not afford because he was being owed as well. I received two separate visitors in my office last week who randomly hinted that they think sometimes about killing themselves. One just lost a job, and immediately fell into penury, with no prospects of getting another job or a business going. The other has always suffered from serious financial squeeze as a lady entrepreneur in Nigeria’s brutal business environment. We cannot disparage them or call them weak. Not all of us will be strong in the same way, and so mere preaching to them can only help marginally. The reality is harsh. And it is not just a Kogi State affair, but countrywide. I would have intellectualized the matter, and called for a new economic order; a scenario where the president, state gover...