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"I chose to launch my autobiography because it shows the different areas of public life apart from academics in which I have had to serve the government."

— Akin Mabogunje

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"People started to see geography in a slightly different light, that it's not just a teaching subject, but it's a subject that really affects the day-to-day development."

"It was the appeal to the situation of governance in my country that made me accept."

"The instruction from the federal government was that every inhabitant of the area must be moved out... we said you don't have to move people out, you have to compensate them."

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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