By Sunny Awhefeada Brigadier Sani Abacha, as he then was, it was who announced the 31 December 1983 putsch that torpedoed the ill-fated government of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and sounded the death knell for the second republic. An unforgettable line in Abacha’s coup speech was that our hospitals had become “mere consulting clinics”. That criticism of our public health sector was a searing indictment of the failure of government in that sector. Although, the speech pointed to a negation of the purpose of government, we must realize…
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