Oftentimes, I heard people scream with utmost audacity that the greatest problem of Nigeria in this time is CORRUPTION but that is a big big lie of this era. Most people without any iota of doubt believe that if we can combat crime and corruption in our nation especially in the public service ministry then Nigeria will be the Eldorado that will believe and dream of.(Humm,that is another lie)
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Let me start to state that corruption can never be erased from this nation as long we are unpatriotic. Corruption free society is far from our dictionary as long we indulge in some attitude that always betray the true essence of our nationhood. Every Nigerian is definitely conversant with that word but how many of us have taken the painstaking approach to deal with this menace? Our system has cripple many effort to save situation, simply because most of our leadership are indeed corrupt.

I have listened to so many comments either online or offline with the eagerness in my spirit to really have someone made an emphatic suggestion on how to deal with this madness called Corruption but to my greatest surprise, it seems that almost everyone that I have heard are just saying the same thing.

True be told, OUR PROBLEM is not CORRUPTION rather UNPATROTISM. It sounds a little bit, biased?

Un-Patriotism is the tap root of corruption.it is the lubricant that greases the locomotive of such nation and her citizen. The greatest challenge, Nigeria has in this era is the ability to tackle corruption heads on. This has made us to see corruption as a normal way of living. Take for example, When a policeman collabo with the agberos to collect money from innocent public. What do you call it? Or when a public servant loot the public funds for his personal consumption, how do you describe that?

Funny enough, Most of us will quickly say that corruption is the answer but truly UNPATRIOTISM is the real answer. Un-Patriotism is what made former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko who fled Nigeria after a military coup in 1984, and accused of stealing $1bn (£625m) of government money not forgetting the problem of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha’s wahala and the ones you can remember. All these are rooted in one word “Un-Patriotism” and that is our greatest challenge in this country.

Can we overcome it? Can we ever have a “Corrupt-free society? Yes we can..

Until we come to the point of self-truthfulness and tell ourselves the simple truth to change (Not the kind of APC told us) and take the painstaking steps in re-educating ourselves of our inherent moral values that we lost decades ago.
Until we deliberately educate our children, the true essence of our nationhood and her values.

We will not enter into our El-dor-ado.

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