It is awkward for consumers to be continually deceived into purchasing items that are not exactly what they look like in the market place. With a heavy heart, one cannot help but wonder the rationale behind such mischievous practice on part of producers of consumables. Take a look at the picture in this post. Looking at the externalities, as one is prone to doing when on a shopping outing, the expectation of an unsuspecting customer is that a full box of cornflakes is being purchased. The disappointment sets in upon opening the box in question with a revelation of an annoying quantity of cornflakes well below half the volume of the box. What a waste of space ! Or should I say ‘what a successful method of marketing’? Either ways, the absurdity is so clear that even the clueless of men are not robbed of the understanding of the evil intention and foolishness of the producers. In trying to entice buyers, they engage in an unhealthy waste of materials. That box can comfortably be used to package twice the quantity of cornflakes in that box. This is more like ending up hurting your own child and ‘Mike’, when your actual intention was to hurt ‘Mike’ alone.

The case mentioned here is just one out of several. It has become a commonplace practice; but does that make the act of deception right? No! This also amounts to corruption. Corruption, as Nigerians have come to know it, borders on stealing government money or financial offence committed by highly placed individuals in government. This is nothing but half-baked truth. Lower level of financial crime or stealing by trick offers an effective training ground for the unforeseen top shelf financial misappropriation. Who would have thought that James Ibori in his hay days as Governor ever engaged in stealing in the United Kingdom in his hustling days? His seed of corruption wasn’t sown when he was a governor, but when still hustling. Moral background check before any appointment proves itself a necessity here. Anti-corruption agents should learn if they are wise.

Beaming our searchlight on our telecos and internet service providers, one may not have to search so hard before noticing them at the high table reserved for the corrupt and exploiters. Imagine them advertising their services, through the phone number I bought from them, without their asking for my permission. The most annoying of it all is force subscribing you to a service without your knowledge, and continuously subject you to unholy deductions. NCC should be probed for not calling these companies to order. Have the people in the commission been served fat envelopes? It’s clean up time! Anti-corruption crusaders, it’s time to boogie.

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