ENEMIES of progress; yes, that’s what they are!

Last week, these same enemies tried, without success, to impugn our number one drug control Agency and the good personality of its amiable oga at the top, who is even pushing for a sweet second shot at the cake.

The news went round, at the weekend, that the social media (the Internet) had got some new stuff; and the gist was that Oga is enmeshed in corruption.

Corruption in this Agency? Nothing really new then! After all, corruption is everywhere — even in Aso Oke or Aso Okuta. Our uniformed Olopas, the Sports Ministry, Pensions Office, etcetera… and even some godly places had been accused of corruption in the past. So what’s the big deal?

But when the news continued to fly around, CC decided to check it out. Behold, Oga didn’t do it himself; he merely did it by proxy, that’s what the allegation says. His sin is that one connected woman, who works with Oga, operated a syndicate ‘within.’

The  “information” is that the woman’s dealings bloated her account to some N700m.  And the deal was in collaboration with the Oga at the top. The petitioner alleges “definite connections between the woman and her fake drug dealers,” as “several transactions were said to have been made on the account by those suspected to be perpetrating this dastardly act.”

The petitioner also alleged that this woman runs Oga’s personal business and so Oga should really be at the top.

Is this the handiwork of detractors, out to rubbish the good work Oga and the Agency is doing; another smoke without fire?

Assuming that this allegation is true, then the Agency should give Oga a clean bill of health because, since cancer drugs don’t work by proxy, corruption, like the Green Passport, cannot serve two masters.

The antelope, for its own life, shouldn’t try to hunt the hunter; let the lion do it. But where is the lion in this jungle; still sleeping?