To define a bandit may come easy to most Nigerians. He is the fellow with guns, sometimes in hoods, often in the hunt, utters swear words and threats, hoots in forests, snorts in huts, kidnaps boys and girls, looms over schools, is a bigot, brings down planes and derails trains, darkens highways with hails of bullets and corpses, skewers the police, razes down prison walls, snarls with blood on his hands, defiles the nubile, casts his shadow on the presidency, browbeats senators, governors, generals and ministers and commands a huge…
The bandit – In Touch, By: Sam Omotsaye
