This government is definitely NOT fighting corruption, because the current system benefits them and their cronies. Most of them are corrupt, as they are products of the dirty system we run. A rigged and filthy system of governance.

Take a cursory look at Nigeria today, and you'll notice that we practically live in abyss. A country that is eternally completely unable to provide water, good roads, electricity, and a safe environment for her citizens, is surely an abyss. Maybe worse.

A trip to any immigrations office for an international passport, will convince you that our dear nation has been ripped in pieces by corruption. You'll see an organisation filled with workers whose hands are soiled with bribes; people who will not move a finger except you pay over N30,000 for a passport of N18,500. You see bribery going on in broad daylight, Nigerians extorting fellow Nigerians. And if you insist on doing the right thing, heaven help your passport to be ready in six month's time.

The police? A vastly corrupt organisation. Not only corrupt, but wicked and heartless at the same time. They take bribes for everything under the sun. They steal on the road, at the office, and in the bush; in the light and in the dark. They do not mind perverting justice for a morsel of bribe.

Name just one part of the Nigerian system that is not filled with bribery and corruption. The government at all levels, from the presidency to the local governments, the military, customs, the pensions scheme, INEC, NPC, NNPC, the private sector, etc., are all infested with one form of corruption or the other, enjoying tacit support from top government officials.

If our leaders wanted to wipe out corruption in Nigeria, or at least reduce it to respectable levels, they will not be clowns in the senate, or presidency, or states, or local governments. No! They will passionately come up with ways and methods to fight corruption everywhere it is found.

They will overhaul the police and every other security agency out there and reform them completely. They will make corruption totally forbidden and unappealing to every Nigerian by attaching heavy consequences to such practices. They will sanitise every level of government and create a country where systems, not just individuals, fight corruption.

The presidency, the senate, the governors, etc, are all partners in the crime of robbing Nigeria blind. So it was, so it is, and so it will always be, if something is not done urgently. In fact, when you see a your friend join politics and begin to wave a broom at you, or show you an umbrella, watch it: a new thief is about to be born.

Take the president, our anti-corruption czar, for example. Has he never heard of the looting, bribery and stinking corruption in all the agencies and ministries under his care? If Nigeria is too big to be sanitized all at once, why not pursue laws and systems that will wash these agencies and ministries clean, instead of sending a Magu or Lamorde after his so called enemies?

How about making the EFCC a completely independent organisation whose leader is not chosen by the president? No!
How about building a system that will take down any corrupt person no matter if he is a Dambazau or Lawal or Buratai? Not a chance!
How about reforming the police, army, and all other security outfits such that their officers pay heavily for each bribe taken, or for each needless assault on citizens? Hell no!

How about a senate with lean salaries and allowances? A pipe dream!
How about a senate whose sole aim is to fight for the masses who elected them? Never!
How about a senate that does not dip her hands in the cookie jar of Nigeria' common wealth? No!

How about governors who do not throw parties to commision pathetic pedestrian bridges? Impossible!
How about governors who do not feel like their states owe them for being governors? Never!
How about governors who protect the lives and property of their residents? No!
And governors who do not drain state funds into their personal foreign bank accounts? No! No!! No!!!

But why not? Because the current system benefits them and their children unto the thousandth generation. The system is rigged to favour them. So the will continue to be greedy, nepotistic and clannish.

And there is only one reason for this: they do NOT believe in Nigeria.

Nigeria is rotten from the bottom to the top, and only a holistic approach aimed at sanitizing the whole country from the bottom will work. Every other approach is a farce.

But we still love our country. And the leader(s) who will change this nation for good will never be forgotten. And I am sure that it is not president Buhari and this crop of leaders.

Long overdue but...