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Resuscitating a Dilapidated Country, Ending the Culture of Corruption

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Resuscitating a Dilapidated Country,  Ending  the Culture of Corruption



By Comrade Ezekiel Kagbala


Dealing with Corruption as a global menace has revealed that Nigeria suffers most of all. It is so conspicuous that this nation celebate a corrupt culture. For many years, Nigeria has earned a considerable sum of money which has gone down the cesspool that was created by corruption.


 

Being the oil giant, which runs on the grease of politics, Nigeria could be characterized as a wealthy nation staying afloat on oil. However, the problem is that money from oil does not flow to the people. 

The top public officials are wealthy because they hide behind the falsehood that public money belongs to no one.

 The national news is full of information on how public officials are buying million-dollar mansions and covertly accumulating stolen public funds in financial establishments abroad. 

 The lack of consistency in the appropriate usage of public funds and the politicians' vehement greed has destroyed this country.

 Consequently, Nigeria has a series of inefficient and poorly executed policies. In 2003, the federal government, under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo established the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS). 

This programme headed by the former CBN governor, Prof Charles Soludo, was aimed towards sustainable growth and poverty reduction in the country. However, the programme failed to reach its objective. 

The late administration of Umaru Musa Yar'adua discarded the needs of the people. His administration created a plan to convert Nigeria into one of the top 20 biggest global economies by 2020. So, this program, which now seems to be dead, has gulped a considerable sum of money, which could have been used to solve some of the political and social-economic challenges facing Nigeria.

We must not continue with the back and forth government policies of failure occasioned by bad governance. Nigerians must rise and hold their leaders accountable. One thing is certain, Politician are the main destroyers of the country, The solution is for Nigerian to stop celebrating politician and those who flaunts questionable wealth.
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