BarrElChapo:
No Nigerian police personnel who dies on the job will make heaven walahi.

Shegzy8:

Corruption has eaten so deep into the system. All sector is ridden, corruption is seen as a norm and part of our day to day lives. Everyone is a culprit. so why do we expect a corrupt nation with a corrupt system to produce upright and virtueous leaders?

our leaders are a product of our society.

There are no check and balance

we are lawless.

if leadership is our major problem, why do most Nigerian travel out of its shores to perpetrate crimes of all forms? scam, drugs, robbery. etc

The problem isnt Nigeria, the problem is Nigerians.

Have you followed the politics in our tertiarry institutions? No difference with that of our old, vague politicians. Age shouldnt even be a requirement selecting a leader[ excluding healthcxhallenges].

SmithRussell:


No truer words. Thanks chief.

The only bad thing is that only few people think like this. Just imagine, more than a week, just one comment.

SmithRussell:


No truer words. Thanks chief.

The only bad thing is that only few people think like this. Just imagine, more than a week, just one comment.

CuteEmma:


Well, I didn’t expect a lot of comments; just for people to realize and evaluate themselves.

And I wouldn’t blame the mods either, they believe in traffic.

CuteEmma:
Good evening Nairalanders,

I haven’t created a post in like 6 years now, or even more than; feels good to write something this evening.

So I was going through a particular thread, and I saw this comment:



I actually wanted to just reply but then I realized that it’s not just that person, but almost everyone in Nigeria apart from the NPF guys feel this way, so I decided to say something I think about this.

Why would someone say something like that? Is it because they directly extort with the use coercion and blackmail??
When in reality, almost all Nigerians do it... from public sectors or private... almost everywhere.

In public schools, You can’t challenge your lecturers when they vigorously command you to buy their materials, and most public offices will tell you that they close at 2pm and they will want to make you pay some funny charges; if you don’t pay they will become very rude and strict and lackadaisical.

Banks also do their own, since you can’t (won’t) sue them, they basically behave anyhow they want.

Hospitals won’t attend to you either because of payment deposits or because they just don’t care. They intentionally delay treatments for it to worsen so that they can charge for expensive drugs, surgeries and scans.

Private schools are slave masters; they give peanut to the teachers and at the same time fill up the breakdown of their tuition fees with ridiculous things.

What about religious places? these folks cherrypick what they will do and what they will not do; when it affects them they become blind towards those things, and when it affects their neighbors, their principles will return back - they won’t cheat or lie for you due to religion but it’s perfectly normal for themselves.

The market people are not exempted, they just increase prices as they deem fit and they are always quick to blame it on politicians. When they meet yahoo guys or even people who just look good (guys especially), the price of their products will automatically increase, and then it will remain that way. Honesty doesn’t mean anything to these ones.

The transport people are the nicest, they only increase their fares once in a while even though the amount of levy they pay increases on a daily. But they are always angry, they will rain curses on you at any slight provocation.

Yeah, and those agbero people, they are the worst, They don’t give a hoot about anything that bothers you, as long as you’re on the road, give them “their” money.

In every sector,, almost every person in Nigeria is frustrated and will look for someone else to frustrate too.


But then we are quick to say that “the Police is Not Your Friend”, but sadly the statement should be “a Nigerian is not your friend”. Because, currently, even though the police force has some scosco, even politicians too, every other Nigerian won’t behave in any way different from them.

The name-checkers in here would make you feel like it’s just cruise, but sadly it’s not. They will do worse than the leaders if they get the chance.

I once followed a discussion on Animal Farm by George Orwells, and someone made a comment about the introduction of the book or asked a question rather, that “Assuming they were all humans as their names suggested, Did they now become animals because of the way their master treated them, or did their master treat them that way because they were already animals?”. We all know how they started exhibiting their animalistic behaviors when they took charge.

Relating the question to the Nigeria situation, either way you would choose to answer the question, you’d see that the problem right now is not the police officers or politicians, it’s every Nigerian, in our little capacity we make life difficult for others, then the politicians and police officers, in their large capacity, do the same. No one is better than the other and that is exactly what we need to change. Not the politicians, not the masters, not the police force, but our behavior.

About how that is going to be possible, I don’t know. But it is a good step to understand that we all contribute to the problem, and that we are going to be the ones to fix it.

optionalY09:
We will solve the politician problem first