Nigeria, Oct. 23 -- 'Writing,' as used in the title of this piece, refers to a situation in which a discourse produces a reality. Now, there has been a case of a legislative discourse producing an institutional moment in Nigeria recently. That explains the title of this piece. It is the unpacking of how that happened and what it implies. This is deliberately written in an approving tone of the principal actors involved, but it is not propaganda. It is rather about drawing attention to something that would otherwise be buried in the heaps of the discursive commotion in Nigeria now and, indeed, in the world.

There's a case for widening and deepening elite interest in policing Nigeria, in tandem with the global movement for widening and dee...