Corruption is the bane of Nigeria's greatness. It is the one single most important contributor to the sorry pass in which this potential giant has found itself. It hurts when these Western guys lambast and lampoon Nigeria but the truth is the country positioned itself for such ridicule.
Successive generation of vision-less and selfish leadership at all level has fouled the entire nation with corruption. The corrupt outnumber the incorruptible. People of integrity are becoming an endangered species. Corruption has permeated everywhere: police, politics, health, education, military, electricity, transport, customs. It has become like leaders like the led. The elected leaders shortchange the electorate, the workers shortchange the government, everyone wants a piece of the proverbial national cake. Nigeria is now the 139th most corrupt nation in the world and its seemed some called for celebrations at the 'improvement'!
The Punch newspaper reported that in Nigeria, a kilometer of road costs N1 billion against the World Bank’s N238 million benchmark. The paper revealed that a report explained that though building a road in more rugged terrain would likely involve higher unit costs of construction and maintenance, it also identified the role of corruption in having high unit costs of construction in many countries. Another report clearly identified public work contracts, including roads, as subject to substantial levels of corruption.
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Nigeria will get over her ordeals. God will sanitize the country in response to the prayers and efforts of the real patriots. By real patriots I mean those who have covenanted not to be a part of the bandwagon. That is where the anti-corruption battle must start - at the personal level.
Nigeria stinks? Who/what is responsible?
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