When I joined the firm in London in 1970, chartered accountants were prohibited from advertising their services – with the exception of insertions in the “Yellow Pages” of the Telephone Directory. Thirty-four years afterwards when I retired as chairman and chief executive of KPMG Nigeria and chairman of KPMG Africa at the age of sixty years without gratuity or pension, it was nevertheless with an amazing sense of gratitude and incredible humility. It was a huge privilege to operate in an environment in which meritocracy and the common good were not in lethal conflict. And the dark side is that meritocracy is corrosive of the common good. Bashorun J.K. Randle is a former president of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).

Source: Nigerian Tribune April 28, 2022 03:37 UTC