In a tribute on Saturday to Caprio whose public service has been widely praised, Olaopa said that the American judge challenged the very understanding of who a public servant should be, especially in Nigeria.
To Olaopa, part of the fundamental predicament of the Nigerian state is her inability to provide the mechanism that enables service delivery to the citizens as part of the government’s dividends of democratic governance.
According to him, this failure is due not just to the dysfunctional state of the public services, but also largely to the bad image of the public servants and officials who are the very embodiment of what government looks like.