In late 1975, military head of state General Murtala Mohammed decided to transform Nigeria overnight.
His big, genius plan to achieve this unprecedented phenomenon? He would organise a top-down purge of Nigeria's entire public sector, summarily dismissing and retiring thousands of "corrupt" civil
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