If one nation is successful and has become an immigrant worker destination while another remains in a cess pool of backwardness, corruption, nepotism and etc. It is often as a result of inferiority complex in the backward nation because all humans are thesame and no excuses suffices for one people to be able to build their nation while another group find such a simple task just short of impossible.


There was a time after the fall of the Roman empire, that West Africa was more advanced than Europe, also more organised and that is only a few centuries back. So why should a nation like Nigeria in West Africa, be run down and the people scattered in the 21st century? There may be some other causative factors but the main causative factor is inferiority complex. Good visionary leaders like the stuff that made up the old Action Group can easily end such, the way the People's Action Congress in Singapore turned Singapore into an industrialized modern nation at the forefront of human development within a few decades from a condition at par with pre independence Nigeria in the 1960s. Such is replicable anywhere in the world. With visionary leadership, the whole world would have been like Singapore. Without Nigeria, Western Nigeria would have been like Singapore.

The sing song in Nigeria is corruption, corruption and corruption. Corruption is an ongoing affair even inside individuals. You have to keep fighting the devil within you forever, non stop. So no big deal about corruption. Corruption is never the problem. Just a symptom of a bad system of depending on unearned money. In simple language, if the government has to run around to collect money from workers before they can see even one kobo to spend, then they will automatically cater for the economy inside which those workers work NO MATTER HOW CORRUPT THE LEADERS OF THE GOVERNMENT ARE.

Also, if all the government has to do is to wait for alerts signifying that money has been paid into government coffers by oil exploration companies, then the default setting of the leaders of such a government that do not need the people to raise money will be at best a lackadaisical attitude towards the internal economy, comprising of the workers and economic actors, since these people are not the source of government income and such a government will be corrupt NO MATTER HOW HARD THE LEADERS TRY.

So the simple antidote for corruption is to attach government finances directly to the economy, to the millions of workers, the government must stay clear of depending on free or unearned money. Use only money that would not be there if the people are not there. Everything will then fall in place. So the problem is systemic. It is also a leadership problem because why are you a leader if you can not think this through? That is the only reason it can be seen as a leadership problem.

Chief Awolowo took a position on the issue back as far back as 1967 when he said Nigeria is headed towards an oil doom.

A popular adage says 'Ko s i eni ti ko le jale bi ile ba da' meaning anyone can steal if they are the only one in the house or if there is ample opportunity. Corruption is a bad side of human nature, it is nothing strange. So, to be going about degrading yourself, your country men and people as morally bankrupt and corrupt is wrong. It is reverse racism and inferiority complex. This is what many Nigerians, home and abroad indulge in, including the President.

Many European nations are rated same with Nigeria on corruption, yet they are contributing their quota to human development while their people are not scattered all over the world as economic refugees the way Nigerians are.

The fight against corruption within us as individuals and in our society must continue and in the particular case of Nigeria, assets must be recovered as promised but CORRUPTION IS NOT THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA and if there is no way forward, the country ought to be disbanded, so that the citizens can live in peace in new nations under governments and leaderships that may respect them.

Corruption is our problem,ur theory might be true 4 other countries,not Nigeria.

Inconclusive OP

I love ur write up lawani. . I see lots of sense in this