Note: I was told of this presentation by a lecturer of mine in secondary school, another in University and never had the opportunity of reading the whole thing until I found it on the internet recently. This lecture I have heard of in parts and snippets and not as a whole article as first published in Daily Times Newspaper of January 1st, 1964. But I always got the general gist. Tai Solarin was seen as a general critic and a moral crusader of the generation that I grew up in, in Nigeria. However, like another government critic, Prof Wole Soyinka, IBB knew how to deal with them. As a critic who had no job but to criticize it is easy, he gave Tai the People's Bank and Wole he gave Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). In 1989, The Peoples Bank was founded by the government, and Tai Solarin became the first chairman. The bank was created to disburse soft loans and other forms of credit to the very poor to start their own businesses. But this was a problem as it was filled wit...