Dr. Sam Aruleba, London, United Kingdom samarus@rocketmail.com: The massive retirement visited on our senior military officers by President Goodluck Jonathan recently is not new in Nigeria's political chess play. All previous heads of state, without exception, went through the clinical custom of hermetic philosophy whenever they felt jittery of their servants. What is amiss in those collaborative concepts is the rationality for doing so at the time those affected officers were still in their prime value to the nation, considering their respective knowhow, cumulative experience and billions of naira outlay on training. Such extemporaneous instinct and whimsical approach are however devoid of good governance. It also displays a pessimistic view of human nature and condones opportunistic and unethical ways of manipulating people.
