Elected representatives: Servants or masters? by Abiodun Komolafe Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child. Cicero, 46 B.C. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), renowned statesman, lawyer, philosopher, poet and ‘the greatest forensic orator Rome ever produced’, was right! We have to go into the past to understand today! The present conundrum in the National Assembly highlights just how far we have departed from many rational definitions of public service. It wasnt always like this! From the early 1950s, with the commencement of self-rule in...