Nigeria, March 8 -- In my last contribution titled "Nasir El Rufai as a threat to national security," I asked a number of questions about the actions, utterances, public confessions and acts of sheer wickedness carried out by my old friend, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, for which I am still waiting for answers.

The last thing I heard about him is that he is still in detention and that he suffered a nose-bleed whilst there after one week, and for this he has my sympathies.

I hope he gets out soon, so that he can respond to me directly and take care of his nose.

What I forgot to mention in that piece was the large number of orphanages he knocked down in Abuja when he was minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the large number of or...