The Myriad Of Greed That Runs From The Citizens To The Government
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Over the course of three months plus, transportation and food has become the most expensive commodity and services in Nigeria. It's very ironical especially when there's been a little reduction in the price of fuel, The thing is, crude oil's rise or fall just about determines the rise and fall of almost everything in the Nigerian market and lately many have profited greatly from the pandemic and because of this excessive profiting many are even hoping and wishing that the pandemic continues. we've seen people like Zuckerberg and Jeff Besoz add tremendous amount of wealth to their already flowing stack of wealth and looking at many other places like Nigeria, the pandemic have becomes a huge revenue generation.
The Nigerian government is currently insinuating that it's broke meanwhile we've seen so many external bodies donating huge amount of money to them because out there, many nation feels that Nigeria is a very poor country. This of course isn't true Nigeria itself is wealthy nation with countless resources but mismanagement and lack of proper documentation and accountability is why the wealth is never spread around in form of ammenities, jobs and decentralised grants to neglected sectors like agriculture. Hence the wealth is stacked up in foreign bank account by government personnels and used to invest in things like personal houses and real estate.
So because these wealth are stagnant it hardly enriches anyone. It's like HODLing bitcoin and having about 20 years time frame on it. It hardly Influence anyone. So these resources suppose to span into other sectors. Nigeria depend majorly on oil and the proceeds from oil are hardly used to influence other sectors even places like the Niger Delta where these oil is coming from is hardly empowered to continuously provide an influx of infrastructural development and that's why we have insurgency and terrorism as well as pipeline vandalisation in the South South fighting "the take and dump policy" the government is doing in the region that generates crude oil to them the most.
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Crime fighting is becoming a means of enriching financial crimes bodies like (EFCC), there is no accountability for the loots being recovered from internet fraudsters and jailed corrupt politicians. Recently a governor who embezzled over 12 billion in Nigeria currency has been released after spending about six months in jail. and this is because there's no bill passed by the constitution for stipulated amount of time for a government official who's guilty of embezzlement. The citizenry recognises that Nigeria is more than a failed state and everyone is looking to cash out on any little opportunity so much that the decline has entered a stage where corruption and crime seems like something that be tackled with owning more financial power.
So the citizenry are taking the crumbs off the floor and because people needs to satiate their needs, illegality has become a more viable way to earn money to placate the constant inflation of prices of commodity and the stagflated state of the economy in general. Now, a person with a constant income will now have to buy goods and services two times the prices it used to be. So there's no check on the excesses of the citizens because law enforcement are not punishing crime but giving people the opportunity to pay for their crime and thereby setting the motive for them to further continuously commit it. So the corruption runs deep from the government to the citizenry and because of this there might continuously be a constant decline and for me the only solution is migrating to somewhere else where I might have better opportunities.
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Sad to see this happening at the cost of so many people. I think we humans still haven't reached that maturity where we wouldn't be selfish when it comes to resources.
There is one thing I really like about this post just read. It the fact you pointed out that while many nations out there thinks or believe that Nigeria is a poor country, this is so untrue. The mismanagement and also (lack of love for the country) has made it this way.
Kudos to your writing!🥂
Of course that's the general assumption of maybe the UN or WHO in general but then the corruption runs deeper and mismanagement has been our bane I don't think it's ending soon
Ending so soon?? I doubt that myself. A nation where even the government has qualify the citizens as nothing but hype! Imagine, for the government of a country to boldly say on two occasions that animals swallowed Millions of the nations currency, one would clearly see that the citizens have been looked down upon.
Well, to me, the fault lies within the masses. It just like someone is slapping you and you just allow it to go on. Then it no longer the person's fault but you.
I honestly will even suggest we Nigerians learn to stop using God as an excuse. If I wanna deliberate on this aspect, it can make a post of its own. But that nothing but the truth. You call an average Nigerian and ask what do you think can be done? They'll say its up to God! Seriously?! Damn!
Like the brains given to us are nothing 🙄
It's really funny, when the price for fuel and food should be depreciating, it's appreciating. The government doesn't care about it citizen as long as they have enough money looted for the betterment of their family and themselves. Traders who increase the price for goods do so because there's no check and the government doesn't care. It's funny when the price for fuel was reduced during the lockdown: that period where transportation was denied.
Everyday we hope our country will learn to put the citizens in heart and be truthful about matters
Funny enough, we're part of the corruption, the system is totally failed and we as the citizenry contributes to the rot in the state so how then can we ever be redeemed when there's no check at all