Nigerians Are OLÈ -By Muhammed Saheed Osioyemi

I was so amused by the way the man was verbally cursing those at the helm of the nation’s affair for being so corrupt and faulted heavily the alarming rate with which they accumulate the state wealth at the detriment of the citizens.

He emphatically gave relative and physical instances to counterfeit his position that the government had failed the masses beyond redeeming. He likened the political arena to the den of lions where those with gut and grits to commit atrocities without minding the possible or ugly consequences of their actions. 
It got to a stage where tears popped out of his eyes and he lost the power to control the tears, this is to ascertain how pained he was while talking with others at the local assembly. 

He lamented and lambasted the government over the deplorable and shamble conditions of the educational and health sector of the country. The former is an ‘Abiku’ that needs rebirth for over the years it has been incapacitated to compete with its likes across the world. While the latter is nothing to write home about.

I was convinced by his words beyond a reasonable doubt that those leaders’ diabolical is brazenly barefaced. 

But the same man that complained bitterly about the extreme cruelty of the leaders was found in a questionable act some days back. He self-centered-ly carted off some palliative relief items that were meant to be distributed to his entire household to his room. The intent was to keep it away from others, but he was caught by his brother while he was smuggling the items to his house.

The circle that gave him the chance to spew all these in an attempt to clampdown and expose the inordinate actions of government couldn’t confront him with the hard and unarguable fact that he was caught in an act which he was complaining about days back. He was being hailed and people were clapping for him given the fact that he was saying the truth.

What comes to mind is how to swim out of this filthy pond of irregularities that keeps painting the country black home and abroad. It becomes a very taxing act to mow down the onslaught of corruption, extortion, kickbacks, bribe, and all sort in the country. It’s becoming increasingly unbecoming.

No doubt, no one is free from this national bane. Everyone dwells their hands in the shit. Those saddled with the management of the state fund have mismanaged it. Embezzled it. And siphoned it for private utilization. Sadly it is that those religious leaders whose one will never think of having a skeleton in their wardrobes are forefront in embezzling the congregation funds.

Businessmen/women hike the prices of commodities at the very slightest opportunity.  

Everyone keeps checking out different available avenues to exploit the presumed unexploitable. Steal one another’s properties at a very sighted chance. It’s saddening. Nigerians are thieves.

As it stands, it has reached a peak where all hands must be put together and work in harmony to drag the bane which is eating deep our fabrics and plunging the country into a national disgrace, to mud. The war against corruption should be fought without witch-hunt intention. It should be envisioned beyond party affiliation and social stratification.

Those found wanting of any questionable act must be dealt with the iron hand not glove hands as it is rampant today. Capital punishment should come to fore. For if we must have a corrupt-free country where thing works accordingly, then corruption must be fought mercilessly.