Here's a personal story.
The year is 1990 and D.F. Hundeyin has just been promoted to Director, Lagos State Ministry of Lands. Apparently the seat is a goldmine, but oga has no idea.
Of course my straightlaced, foreign-educated dad only wants to work and collect his salary so...problem.
"We all know" that a Director of Lands must 'eat,' so he must be a selfish man!
Something even the governor doesn't have!
Oga had no idea. He was just working and going home.
As simple as his life was, "we all know" was nearly about to get him killed.
Apparently for a whole month, SSS operatives under Rasaki's orders have been tailing the entire family, monitoring the kids in school, attending church with them...
And the results were in.
There was no property or fat bank account anywhere. Just a simple, hardworking man.
The shadowy network of military goons would have just staged an accident and possibly the whole family would have been wiped out.
Because "we all know" + dictatorship and lack of process = such outcomes.
Again, the sort of arbitrary thing that happens where there are no proper institutions and processes.
He later ended up becoming a minister under Olusegun Obasanjo, and was last seen taking a hearty wee all over Obafemi Awolowo's grave.
The moral of the story is, DICTATORSHIP SUCKS. ALL OF YOU THAT WANT A DICTATOR ARE INSANE AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU.