Nigeria, Dec. 1 -- For the first time in a long while, I saw fear in the eyes of federal legislators last week after President Tinubu's directive for the withdrawal of police orderlies attached to certain categories of political office holders.

If there is one thing that automatically unites Nigerian legislators across party lines, it is their belief in entitlement. Legislators are so well paid that they can afford to hire security aides of their choice from any of the many security companies in the country so that the police can be deployed to carry out their primary duty of protecting the society at large. As far as Nigerians are concerned, the president scored a bull's eye with that ban.

The perceived shielding of public officials fr...