Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️

I have been blessed with a wilder mind.

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[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

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[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

css níbi tí ọjọ́ orí mi dé yìí.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey Will take a look.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

#1 and #2 are already underway to some extent.
#3 and #4, however, require enormous political will, given how consequential they are.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey Forgot to respond, but #4 needs to be reattempted and its parameters refined until we achieve consensus.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey I think the secondary problem should be solved rather than reverting to centralisation. I have planned reading about political parties as organisers of people. Going to explore how they can be the game-changer here.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey No. These feel like two different things. The more I think of it, political parties may be the best way to empower people to hold the right level of government accountable for each issue.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey I'm curious: if we choose a specific issue, say garbage disposal. Is it the state or the LG that should be held accountable?

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey In theory (List 5 ways to reach your LG chairman) or in practice (Actual testing of the so-called levers)?

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey Essentially, the centre continually empowers people to hold the state accountable.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey I believe that Social Studies (now Civic Education) needs to be redesigned so that people understand the responsibilities of the different levels of government and the levers available to them to hold each level accountable.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey Wale Adebanwi's Yoruba Elites & Ethnic Politics in Nigeria. This is the chapter that examines Obasanjo versus Afenifere.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@Tolu__Grey A powerful centre keeps failing because even the best administrators cannot keep up with the scale of responsibilities they are charged with.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

#3 and #4 are interesting because I can already hear the campaign for them, especially if we employ music, as we so often do.

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[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

I'm something of a Mexican-Canadian-Nigerian, you know.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

Bought three books for my Scott Turow collection. Got a free book that's perfect for me right now.

Taking random walks and stumbling upon secondhand bookstores are the kinds of àrìnàkore that I need in all aspects of my life.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

Meanwhile, my recent book purchases have been delightful

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

@SammyTourani no wealth.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

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damn. must have been too young when I read Dr Wilmot's account. Pa Ikhide strikes again.

[Orochimaru's Demeanour 🧜🏿‍♂️ @thyrbysn]

$GNS +100% after hours. wtf.