werepeLeri: What do you think Nigeria would have been like if the above were true?

chimuchi: [size=28pt]its impossible. so lets just leave the imaginary imagination. no time for all these hallucinations and lets move forward. this post is like dreaming. no time. [/size]

canuck: What the people cannot envision will forever remain elusive - We have come to accept corrupt practices as the norm, with everyone waiting for his/her turn. But like the mega-lottery, 99.999% of the population will NEVER benefit from it.

its impossible. so lets just leave the imaginary imagination. no time for all these hallucinations and lets move forward. this post is like dreaming. no time.

What the people cannot envision will forever remain elusive - We have come to accept corrupt practices as the norm, with everyone waiting for his/her turn. But like the mega-lottery, 99.999% of the population will NEVER benefit from it.

afam4eva:
Majority of Nigerians have benefitted from correuption in their own little way. If you have bribed a police officer, you're corrupt. If you've slept with a lecturer to get good grades, you're corrupt. If you've broken traffic rules you're corrup. If you've syphoned money meant for other people, you're corrupt. If you're at the helm of affairs and you pay lip service to fighting corruption, you're the corruption.

Hmmmm. . .I see your point. While the majority practice corruption "in their own little way" (waiting for their big break), the lives of future generations are mortgaged by the big players, AKA cabals.

Using the English football league system as an analogy, most Nigerians "play" in the lower/less popular/inferior 140+ English leagues, while those in government are in the Premier League of corruption.

Its like imagining how it would be like if men get pregnant and give birth after 9months... Stupwid imagination right? Yessss!!!! That's how it is to imagine Nigeria without corruption

Cine:

Yes I totally agree with you. Although not everyone's waiting for their turn. A lot of corruption stems from education (or lack of it) and poverty. I would love to see Nigeria look to leaders like Chavez and Morales as inspiration. Although I don't think there are too many left leaning parties in this country. It's way too conservative for my liking.

drzed:

I agree with you. But there is actually only ONE left-leaning party, which has unfortunately been unable to sell itself to the rest of Nigeria. The (lack of) education you spoke of also counts a lot. I can bet that 90% of educated Nigerians dont know the difference between a left wing and a right wing party. What more do you expect from the illiterates among us who are in the majority?

This why all parties and political campaigns in Nigeria are about manifestos and not ideology. For example our politicians/parties would always campaign and say: I will give you electricity (HURRAY!) I shall build good roads (HURRAY!) Everyone will have meat in their pot of soup (HURRAY!!!!). I shall build a house for every Nigerian (HURRAY! HURRAY!! HURRAY!!!).

The ideological question is HOW do you go about providing these things? This where left wing ideology vs. right wing ideology comes into play.

A right wing party for example, will say something like: We shall remove subsidy, and use proceeds to improve infrastructure over the course of 7 years, taxes will remain the same, we will not increase minimum wage and we shall punish corruption with death sentence. A left wing party will say something like: We shall keep the subsidy, and in fact add more subsidy to diesel, healthcare and education, we shall increase taxes by 5% and punish corrupt people with life-sentence.

As you can see, Nigeria has a LONG way to go politically; and probably up to 90% of us dont even know how far and how hard the journey will be. This is the real tragedy of our system as it is today.

Cine: @Ijogz K


No country is corrupt free, Noam Chomsky said; that the surest way to eradicate a democracy is to transfer power to dictators, monarchs, a military junta, or large corporations. The Western world suffers from the latter. The arabs suffer from monarchs, and Nigeria a combination of all the above.

But change is defo possible. You'd be surprised.