In the past few days, the buzz has been on about the British Prime Minister’s comments on corruption in Nigeria. Regardless of how we feel, most of us Nigerians agree with him. But the truth is that David Cameron missed the point, Nigerian corruption is not just fantastic, it down right sexy. In fact it’s the sexiest in the world given that no runway model ever born can compete with it for attention.

Nigerian corruption is sexy when you understand that an incompetent palm wine tapper can become a local government chairman from the palm tree and in the next nine months, marry two new wives (one doctor and one lawyer) and build three duplexes, one in his village and two in the city.

You’ll appreciate how sexy Nigerian corruption is when a politician’s son, whom you know used to sell okrika (used clothes) with his mother at Aswani market in Lagos to support the family, walks into a club and buys 17 bottles of Hennessy, each worth more than the average civil servant’s annual salary.

It is as sexy as the fact that a man who lived on your street and drove the oldest Peugeot 505 and also perpetually owed the garri woman by your house corner, now steps into church/mosque with police escort as a senator (after rigging and killing his way into office) and makes a onetime donation of twenty million naira, leaving the pastor or imam with no choice but to ask all other members of the congregation to pray for him so that God will bless us as he has blessed him. Even your wife/girlfriend at that moment admires the senator and for a second wonders why you’re not corrupt?

Nigerian corruption is so sexy that for most Nigerian pastors, their God (who was born in a Goat house) is not a poor God. He’s the God that flies in private jets, the God that wears the most expensive suits, shoes, perfumes and wrist watches while their church members who.....
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