Does Buhari have the muscle to clean Nigeria’s Augean stables?
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Issue 300
- 15 May 2015
| 3 minute read
For the fifth of his 12 labours in penance for past sins, Hercules undertook the apparently impossible task of cleaning King Augeas’ filthy stables. Hercules tore down walls and diverted rivers, washing away the mess. In the event, neither Augeas nor his rival King Eurystheus was happy, but who now remembers that Hercules was refused his reward? The Greek hero’s immortality resides in cleaning the Augean stables.The corruption that has brought Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other arms of state to their knees constitutes President-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s own Augean stables
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