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Senator Ben Murray-Bruce: Simply Brilliant or Just Shooting Blanks?

It is said that one should be the change he desires in his society. While this sounds melodious and smart (I have said it too), it is only realistic in: a self-governed society without leaders or elites a society where each and every member is making efforts to change his/her personal behavior in order to attain the desired societal change.   In a society like ours, significant societal changes lay with the elites or the ruling class. Personal behavioral changes would be little steps towards a societal change that may only be observed by the people in the individual’s immediate environment.  Having started with the term ‘change’, you shall be pardoned for thinking that this another pro- or anti-APC/Buhari divination…well, it isn’t. This divination is about the amiable Senator Ben Murray-Bruce. By the virtue of being an Honorable Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ben Murray-Bruce -as well as his colleagues - is among the ruling class and, therefore, is an el