The Issue Of Nigeria's Corruption Is Pathetic

The issue of Nigeria’s corruption is pathetic. Nigerians are neither too highly nor too lowly placed to steal government monetary resources. Nigeria’s money is for the taking so that no one is neither too little nor too big to steal. People fight for National position in order to position themselves strategically to access the nation’s monetary resources to commandeer as much as they are able to see, for what you see is yours to take. To perfect in the corruption which has become a very lucrative business, Nigerians have deliberately distorted what the British put in place as a system or the standard way of operating government. This distortion has left us to be operating a system-less system in a supposedly, a decent Nigerian nation that has been rendered helpless to become a nation-less nation. Those who have distorted the system and made Nigeria a nation-less nation believe that what exists, perhaps as “a geographical expression” is only there to serve their personal interest. They cannot pause for a second to think of the numerous youths we have in all parts of the country, and neither do they ever think of the well being of future generations of Nigerians.

To this category of Nigerians, who indeed are in the majority, Nigeria exists only as a nation where those of them who have access to the nation’s wealth through appointment are the chosen ones by God to help themselves as much as possible at the expense of the unfortunate and poor citizens without appointments.

Nigerians steal great amounts of the nation’s wealth without any feeling of guilt. This is understood because to them they are not doing anything wrong. They are only conforming exactly with what Nigeria was designed for (to share, to take, and to steal). This is the predicament of a nation without soul. The truncation of Nigerian nationalism by the Richards Constitution in 1946 made the center of Nigeria unattractive. People came from the Regions to the centre only to take whatever they could to their respective Regions. This culture of taking and sharing degenerated into the outright stealing for self gratification. Those involved in the misappropriation of the nation’s wealth feel that stealing government resources is not a big deal. Unfortunately, all of them are highly positioned men and women of the national society. Those who successfully steal from the common goods of the society are congratulated, hailed and worshipped as heroes.