That the banking sub-sector of the economy has overtaken public utilities such as NEPA, NITEL and Nigerian Airways in exciting public hatred is no longer news. What is novel, however, is the level of chicanery being applied to demonise banking and bankers. Incidentally, unsuspecting members of the fourth estate of the realm who should be at the vanguard of promoting the banking sub-sector which unarguably is the most indigenised, are being surreptitiously used as conduit for hate articles which are daily being churned out in the media
It is a sad commentary on the media and indeed society at large that instead of hailing the banking sub- sector that has innovated and indigenised the economy the most, it is daily flogging it. This is clearly a case of killing the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg. Remarkably, the continuous emphasis on the gloomy side of banking in the media is not for want of positive developments in the sub-sector to dwell on. Infact, there are legion that seem not to be catching the fancy of the media……..