EVIL BREEDING MORE EVIL IN NIGERIA.
“Nigeria we hail thee” a popular stanza that starts the recently come back National Anthem.
Nigerians faced decades of tough measures from her different administrations in the past sixty plus years of her independence which produced in them ruggedness and tough resilience.
In the midst of their resilience, the, recent world value survey massively concluded declare Nigeria “The happiest people in the world!”
This irony has however created in an individual Nigerian a value for suffering and smiling according to a late Afrobeat singer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti of Yoruba descent in Nigeria..”Suffering and Smiling”
We all learn to struggle, to suffer and to smile and peradventure to die one day while believing that heaven is our reward.
But that is consolation !
That faith however multiplies the rate of religiosity and its spread like mushrooms in Nigeria above all other countries in the world.
Nigeria is a country of greatest number of religions, sects and worship centers. It is also a country with the wealthiest black pastors in the world according to world statistics.
This development created a malaise that trends among the youths who found solace in worship centers praying for jobs that are not there at the time they should be earning a meaningful living.
That in itself accounted for multiplied effects on poverty, youth crime and a bleak future for the coming generations.
All these also materialise in dearth of marriageable men to engage the teeming population of single ladies and affects the socio moral lifestyles of our social process.
There is hardly a sector of the country where traces of evil are not experienced, caused by a common phrase, Executive Corruption.
Executive corruption is corruption of leaders of political government, over the years since her independence.
This infected and influenced several other institutions into corruption like the Educational, Traditional, Economy, Culture social system, religious and military systems.
One thing leads to another and today, the effect of executive lawlessness over six decades have grown a cankerworm that makes Nigeria a land of missed opportunities, systemic decay, and profound socio-economic struggle for its citizens.
In the midst of that, an individual becomes immune to the feelings and pains of another.
The leaders show the worst sense of responsibility to their subjects.
Religious and traditional leaders are the most unscrupulous, insensitive citizens in the areas of the welfare of their followers while social gap becomes the worst in the world, the poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer. That so absurd!
Like feces attract flies, our inglorious corruption now attracts all kinds of terrible crimes of different categories.
The worst in recent times grieve the whole world and attracts the attention of the super world like America to identify Nigeria as a country of a particular concern to ban all visa applications from Nigeria.
Crime in Nigeria did not just start in recent times and never with terrorists of ISWAP nor with ISIS not even with local religious parlance.
Our children have long time ago taken adventure into crimes of Yahoo which later transited to Yahoo Yahoo and today Yahoo plus scamming the foreigners in billions of dollars and causing thousands of innocent girls to lose their mental state for money ritual but neither the leaders nor parents nor institutions of God saying anything to address that.
As our image internationally sinks into the mud as world worst internet scammers after India.
Mothers and fathers of these good for no future accursed children look away claiming their children have no option to survival unless government could provide them jobs.
Our nation suddenly became between first and third world worst criminally infested nation in terms of Internet fraud after India.
Our nation smells in dirty wealth that grew big mansions from accursed means; internet scam by youths, stolen budgets by political leaders, presidents, governor’s, house members alike. Chunk of stolen wealth are exported outside to avert investigations and those accounted for most of the rising towers across the globe with notable crimes of drugs that escort them.
While all these last, dirty money is being celebrated mostly and it determines today who is a candidate of heaven to sit at the front rows of our worship places calling for donations in billions and many others ask for only hard currencies in a local nation that spends naira but demand foreign currencies from worshippers in a way that influences corruption of political leaders .
I don’t know where in the world an individual can be requested either by appeal or by coercion to donate as much as we now have it in a third world nation and such would not be probed, and investigated showing Nigeria as a damn corrupt nation.
A country saddled with millions of poor people with the worst poverty level as millions struggle for two square meals.
This evil today has taken a dramatic turn with more crimes of no border in colors, class and tribe cutting across all and sundry.
The resultant consequence berths little children of the kindergarten age of under two years now being forcefully separated from their mothers care by kidnappers in their schools and taken to the bush, mercilessly beaten through combinations of sun, heat, rain, horse whips, hunger and bad water and food infections looking pale, dry and emaciated while everyone in the cities and villages show very negligible concerns but going about normal duties.
Our very leaders themselves feel so unconcerned in all these just the way they show little concern to the menace of youth yahoos that cause innocent girls to run mad in the streets and several of yahoo victims killed for money ritual. This is horrible but party members are so negligent of these evil carrying on with ambitions of who is winning the next election.
Yes, who is winning the next election will automatically avail them the next lucky leader to steal the budget dry and the loser continues with the dealing of drugs, return to the era of oil subsidy and scams of privatisation decree.
Unfortunately, the very poor people who feel these brunt do not even love themselves anymore as the novelist wrote in, ” Things fall apart” .they are the first to vote away their consciences based on mere gratifications.
Yahoo Mothers support their Yahoo children through various associations of proud Yahoo mothers and fathers form gangs singing praises to support their children that make them emergency owners of homes and cars..
Our traditional institutions today smells bitterness and rage among one another as the once highly exalted office now become partisan for lust for money, for love of women and power in the interim losing heritage and respect.
Today Obas have become victims of kidnappings, and caught doing yahoo, besides many engaging in murder. Some are arrested and in prisons.
Evil today multiplies without difference to who commits it be it a youth, elder, king, parents or our highly revered men of God in cassock.
God helps us
