Adeniyi Adeyemi’s alleged forgery to secure funding for a ghost agency highlights an outrageous level of incompetence and perhaps collusion at the highest levels of government. Yet, here’s where the media circus begins. You won’t see prophetic tales of accountability from CNN or MSNBC—they’ve chosen to spin this as an isolated incident rather than a systemic issue. Imagine if this scandal were under a different administration; you’d be inundated with headlines screaming “Corruption!” and “Impunity!” But because this involves certain established powers, all we get are hushed tones and passive language.

Fox News may brush this off as a “simple mistake,” further normalizing the unacceptable. Where’s the outrage? Here’s a dude running rogue, forging documents to siphon taxpayer dollars, and they’re talking about him like a misguided entrepreneur rather than a criminal. If this isn’t a potent image of how corruption seeps through the cracks of bureaucracy, I don’t know what is.

While people across the country are struggling with inflation and economic strain, the mainstream media downplays a scandal like this as if it’s just another political mishap. The reality is, this is emblematic of a broader, deeply entrenched rot. Voters deserve transparency, not sanitized narratives that conform to whatever agenda is in vogue at the time.