We need a high profile scapegoat too
By Muyiwa Adetiba A big fish was spiked out of the muddy waters of politics and government in China early this week and hung up to dry. Mr Liu Zhijun, the Minister of Rail Transportation was given a suspended death sentence for alleged corruption while in government. His trouble started when there was a train collision a couple of years back which called for a probe. The probe also coincided, unfortunately for him, with the President’s determination to rid China of corruption. So you could say he was a scapegoat; a high profile tokenism in a corrupt ridden system. Mr Zhijun had spent over 20 years in government and ironically, his tenure witnessed a rail revolution of sorts when better, faster trains were built. In other climes, particularly in Nigeria, he would have been described as a performing Minister and given a plethora of awards. It took an accident to unearth some undercover deals that eventually put him away. On the same day that Mr Zhijun was facing his suspended death sente...