I get amused at us when we insist we fight corruption. For goodness sake, our very existence as a country is being sustained by the Ethnicity of Corruption! How on earth do we fight ourselves?
Some criminals planned coups against the country. What did we do? We eulogized and made them "heroes"! Muritala Mohammed committed genocide and we placed him on our Naira notes and named an international airport after him. Sani Abacha ruined us but we named a stadium and numerous streets after him. The one from Daura committed a crime against the state, we rewarded him with Elder statemanship and made him president once more. Babangida committed a crime against the state and not only did we name national monuments after him, we go to him for advise on how to run a country! A criminal like Gowon wasted our time for 9yrs and now, he's a revered elder stateman who "prays" for the country after supervising the unnecessary death of millions. They stole our people constitution and presented us with a fraud and we sing "Hosanna" like some zombies!
Our well-known criminals have been greatly rewarded. The proceeds of corruption have been mind-blowing! We have been programmed to understand that crime pays, and pays far better than MMM. Corruption has been encoded in our DNA. We eulogize the corrupt on a daily basis. To now turn around and mouth empty words of fighting corruption, is so ridiculous that it makes me laugh and weep in tandem.
We may keep deceiving ourselves though, but we ain't fighting nada! To fight corruption, we must dismantle the corrupt structures and punish those that entrenched it. Those who have profited handsomely from corruption cannot tell us about corruption! They should shove that nonsense up a place where the sun doesn't shine and stop making noise already!
©®Baron Roy