The sad story of the country called Nigeria

The sad story of the country called Nigeria.

With a booming economy throughout the 70s, and 80s
Nigeria was touted as one of the most promising major emerging economy.

But that breakneck growth sputtered to two decade low since 1999, with many observers pointing to the corrosive effect of endemic corruption—including a spate of scandalous embarrassment from spurious allocations by the National assembly to themselves under the civilian administration  as  major  reasons.

Perhaps more than Nigerias weak currency and rising inflation, the graft problem has undermined institutions and thwarted efforts to reduce poverty and catalyze sustainable growth in the world’s largest  black
democracy.

 Public revelations of corruption, including major scandals in different branch of the economy particularly the national assembly and the oil industry have galvanized a rising public with increased demands for better governance.

 The tide may spur  new political movements, and force the government to address transparency and aproach towards corruption.

We must be serious on combating government malfeasance and Prevent  Corruption in high places to curtail officials from cashing in on opportunistic looting. Our parliament are a major embarrassment when it comes to the way they selfishly embezzle funds into their personal accounts instead of towards public projects. It is pathetic that the money they allocate to themselves for cars,houses, furniture, securities,wardrobes are more than what is allocated for education, health,security, roads and other important sectors that are supposed to help keep the economy growing . 

We have seen our government time and time again, borrowed from foreign leaders only for the money to be shared among themselves.

WE as a nation must embark on a national conscience awareness by changing our attitudes towards this culture of worshiping money and lips service if we must get things right.we must also stop collecting money from politicians before and during elections, this will put an end to vote buying and make politicians to pay the price of not performing at the poles.

 If a politician is voted out for not performing, it will serve as deterrent to other office holders ,by making them realise that there is a price for none performance if they or their Party is voted out of power.
This corrupt officials have  become emboldened respectively, by political parties who have thwarted convictions, and arguably increased incentives for bribery, corruption and embezzlement of public funds. In recent years, graft pervaded society from development, stymied economic growth and reduced the country to impecunious and impoverished country.

 Services have collapsed, maintenance are imaginary , infrastructures are nonexistent  both at state and national level.

We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in Nigeria. It's costing every commuter." "For an economy to grow we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come but unfortunately we are not.

Our roads are death traps, roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructures depends. They are the paths of human endeavor, but our legislators are suffering from optical illusions to see that.

We must change our culture and orientation, our country is dead and ready for burial.

Chris Okobah Ph.D