Idokojimmy:

I just found out that Ur Comment is a perfect description of ur person not Gej. Gej only presented a position, and any rational person Wud test it against empirical fact. For instance, Gej said our major problem is attitude, and that data obtained from FRSC indicate that majority of accidents are recorded on good roads.
He didn't cook d figure, it was reported.
Secondly, is it a lie that our drivers are reckless?
Some drink and drive, over speed, over loading, no good tyre, unserviced vehicles, rush, inability to rest, absence of medical checks etc.
The Abuja Airport road is about d best in d country, several lanes, yet we record on d average, two accident a day. Is it bad road? Let's get our facts straight before we attack people

“Recently, I met with officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps who told me that they had discovered that majority of the road accidents are recorded on good roads.

mosun_ade: [s]What has coruption got to do with people dieng in accidents because they do not obey traffic/driving rules.

Is over speeding an issue of corruption.

Is overloading an issue of corruption.

Is poor vehicle maintenance an issue of corruption?

Is drunk driving an issue of corruption?[/s]

The man made a dumb and reta/rded statement [s]on the cause of accidents and your blood pressure rose up causing you to start a thread on it.

You still have over two years of hot temper posting to do on NairaLand.[/s]

mosun_ade: What has coruption got to do with people dieng in accidents because they do not obey traffic/driving rules.

Is over speeding an issue of corruption.

Is overloading an issue of corruption.

Is poor vehicle maintenance an issue of corruption?

Is drunk driving an issue of corruption?

The man made a statement on the cause of accidents and your blood pressure rose up causing you to start a thread on it.

You still have over two years of hot temper posting to do on NairaLand.

Ikengawo:


There are far bigger problems than 'corruption'. How about a judiciary that doesn't punish ANYONE except petty village thieves? How about apathy towards corruption and underdevelopment that allows it to live? these are far bigger problems than corruption.

kingoflag:

Everything youve stated is as a result of corruption.

Your question: WHY ARE THE LAWS NOT BEING ENFORCED? Answer: Because of corruption.

Hope you understand now.

kingoflag:

Everything youve stated is as a result of corruption.

Your question: WHY ARE THE LAWS NOT BEING ENFORCED? Answer: Because of corruption.

Hope you understand now.

thelastPope: The @op just like many Nigerians have no clue of hpw societies work. Complety as slueless as it comes.
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List of very corrupt countries that are well developed include:
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Brazil
Russia
Egypt
Venezuela
Italy
South Africa
USA
And many more...
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Many of these countries listed like Italy and russia are more corrupt than Nigeria. It is mental laziness that makes people say corruption is our problem in Nigeria. If all the monies stolen between 1970 and 1999 were reinvested in Nigeria to build industriesn from power to agriculture to essential commodities, the country would be highly developed right now. The average Nigerian has a completely warped mind set as evident on this forum. It isn't because of poverty. It is the socio cultural foundation on which the country was built. What we need most in Nigeria is complete re orientation starting from the @op

oyb:

it is mental laziness that makes your employer offer vacuous excuses for all of his failures; nothing is his fault - his job is to sit in aso rock an make excuses as to why he cannot do a single damn thing other than make promises, vows and high sounding plans

thelastPope:

I do not expect anything better from you. Infact, I would have been disappointed if you were able to engage in any meaningful debate. The only post you can post on NL is a GEJ insult. So I can understand. For the records, Fashola said the very same thing GEJ said, but you called it genious. That says it all!

oyb: the complete lack of consequences for corruption - the soft landing that the den of theives jonathan calls his political party is a core reason for the state of nigeria today
they all know that as long as they do not get on the wrong side of the their friends in pdp , they can divert money meant for projects, subsidy, salaries, etc to their private pockets and nothing will happen

oyb:

unlike gej, fashola is a doer - gej is a whiner.

like gej, you have probably never actually been called on to deliver on anything in your life, which is why you think excuses cut mustard

all your master has been able to give us is its not my fault, problem is before my time, these things happen everywhere - that is the whine of a failure

Eko Ile: If you think this man is really not daft, the red highlight clearly pronounced his daftness. This man is worse than a kindergarten school kid This joker shouldn't be a supermarket shop keeper talk less the president of any country...

PointB: Keen observers will see clearly why I generally refer to the AC.N goons here as hypocrites! Same clowns who praised Fashola/AC.N to high heaven when he ignorantly stated that Nigeria can make progress even with worst constitution provided their is change of attitude of the people, are same one cursing GEJ for now toeing similar line as panacea for corruption. This hypocrisy is very unhealthy for both the purveyors (AC.N goons) and the gullible the buy into it. Attacking on GEJ for same 'offense' commited by Fashola is indeed the height of hypocrisy.

@topic,
While there is a lot of benefit in positive attitudinal change in the people, I think it is simplistic to the point of naïvety to expect attitudinal change without specific policy instrument (intervention) targeted at this. This applies to both Fashola and GEJ who have recently advocated for attitudinal changes albeit (naively).

mosun_ade: [s][/s]

Daft. I guess waiting for you to be sentenced to death before knowing that murder is against the law is also a result of corruption.

Failing to check the state of your car is not common sense but a result of corruption because you are daft to know that driving a faulty car is risky and life threatening.

Driving 170km/h on the highway is as a result of corruption because God hasnt given you the mind to know it is not good but you are waiting for a law enforcement officer to tell you.

Downing five bottles of beer before an interstate drive is also a result of corruption because God hasnt given you the mind to know it is not good.

Running red lights is a result of corruption because you are too daft to know that it is wrong to do so.

Why dont you go about naked on the street and wait till law enforcement catches you before you know it is not ok?

Attitudinal change simply means knowing what is good and doing what is good without waiting for any law enforcement lashing at you.

Mtcheewww..

thelastPope:

Maybe they need to teach sociology as a major in Nigerian schools. You are putting the cart before the horse. There are causes and effects. Corruption is not a cause but an effect. A man is corrupt because of who he is. He is not who he is because he is corrupt. Character and attitude are inate features of a man. Corruption is an act or action not a state of being. Pride, selfishness, wickedness, callousness and ignorance are all a state of being.

oyb: the complete lack of consequences for corruption - the soft landing that the den of theives jonathan calls his political party is a core reason for the state of nigeria today

kingoflag:

I've never seen the four walls of a Nigerian school, so whats the next idiotic statement you'll make? Besides, what the hell are you trying to say because all I see is someone thats just trying to show off his proficiency of the English laguage without making any sense at all: "Corruption is not a cause but an effect?", "A man is corrupt because of who he is", "Character and attitude are inate features of a man"..... Like, seriously, what f.cuking point are you trying to make?!

thelastPope:

You just showed your intellectual and academic level for all to see. I need not say more. Lol

kingoflag:


Started off by calling your father daft; not respectable if you ask me. Ask your Mother if in doubt.

Arguing with you--- an imbe.cile that has clearly never live in an organized society (or even if you have, you clearly havent taken advantage of whatever 'insights' the first world has to offer)--- would be a monumental waste of time, so, I'll just let you wallow in ignorance.

koruji: This coming from the mouth of people who promote Igbo supremacy on this forum!!!

Why can't the nation of Nigeria be shamed into performance by the US? You fool yourself.

It is not the tribalism per se it is people that exploit tribal and religious differences to steal us blind - and the fools who because of their tribal supremacy views get taken by common thieves.

PointB: Keen observers will see clearly why I generally refer to the AC.N goons here as hypocrites! Same clowns who praised Fashola/AC.N to high heaven when he ignorantly stated that Nigeria can make progress even with worst constitution provided their is change of attitude of the people, are same one cursing GEJ for now toeing similar line as panacea for corruption. This hypocrisy is very unhealthy for both the purveyors (AC.N goons) and the gullible the buy into it. Attacking on GEJ for same 'offense' commited by Fashola is indeed the height of hypocrisy.

@topic,
While there is a lot of benefit in positive attitudinal change in the people, I think it is simplistic to the point of naïvety to expect attitudinal change without specific policy instrument (intervention) targeted at this. This applies to both Fashola and GEJ who have recently advocated for attitudinal changes albeit naively.

Ikengawo: Something as simple as forming a line in Nigeria will turn into a fight and people will push themselves and fight to get on a bus that everyone is boarding anyways and is going to leave at the same time and go to the same place whether they're first or not.

People, instead of hiring labor and helping unemployment, will find a 7 year old in their village and make them work for free

People, instead of hiring a graduated professional will hire their incompetent brother or nephew who doesn't take his job seriously
You will give people a good road and they'll drive the opposite of traffic

You will give a community an oil pipeline and they'll drill holes in it, blowing themselves up and polluting their community for the next 100 years.

People worship the rich and treat the poor as less than human even when they themselves are poor.

If you ask a nigerian about nigeria they will go on and on about everything bad in their life and wonder why the nation has a bad image, completely unable to count 1 of God's daily blessings

People harbor criminals if the criminal is from their local government area.



Corruption isn't the issue, it's the people and their attitude towards society.

Ikengawo:

LOL and how do you think they're 'lobbying especially as representatives of a particular interest group'? You just gave you two sentences that mean the same thing only one was made to look worst than another to someone in experienced with english.


People not doing their proper job is a bigger problem than corruption. Employees getting paid once and running away is a problem. My father was contracted to build schools. He had a bigger problem with buying equipment and his employees stealing them over night to go sell them than he did with 'corruption'. He finally completed the school 1 year late because he had to deal with people stealing everything from copper wires to desks to paint. He had to make a security budget that was just a big as the school budget from his own money just to make sure the school was completed.


There are far bigger problems than 'corruption'. How about a judiciary that doesn't punish ANYONE except petty village thieves? How about apathy towards corruption and underdevelopment that allows it to live? these are far bigger problems than corruption.


I ask my mother why the men of her generation that are getting old weren't able to add at least 1 clinic to the village to help THEMSELVES at old age, or at least a flushing toilet. She told me that people in Nigeria think such things are luxuries and don't care to build them because it would distract from their main goal in life: showing off. This to them was more important than their health.

GARRI (x7):
GEJ don score own goal......

Eko Ile: Instead of this lazy fool to immediately fire his FRSC man for insinuating that people die more on good roads than bad roads, the id.iot decided to insult our intelligence with that disgraceful rubbish.

What a dummy...