NIGERIANS AND NEED TO CHANGE

They say the Government is not good, but who makes the Government? You and I. We used to be known by the world for our footballing strength and intellectual abilities of our people. The Ibos from the eastern part were well known for trading and the succeed in that, the Hausas were the great farmers that feed the nation with those groundnut pyramids of the North, the yorubas were the great lawyers and intellectuals of our once great nation, but all those have become things of the past. Though alot of the blame can be hipped on the door steps of our leaders from 1976 till date. But more should go to the Babangida leadership that destroyed the institutions that were the pillar of the country, and also a great deal of blame also to the self enriching and hatred leadership of the Obasanjo's regime, which established a good institution called EFCC, but rather institutionalize it, he made it a weapon against political enemies and for people that questioned his integrity.

Before I digress from my topic, it would be important that we as common citizens of Nigeria do our own part in making Nigeria the envy of other nations. I have never seen people love their country like Singaporeans. It is really amazing how much they love and cherish the existence of that nation. I feel so sad being called a Nigerian at times, just because of the crime and fraud being committed by Nigerians all over the world. I cried when I found out that Philippine requires Nigerians to have Visa to come to their country, mean while Benin, Chad, Niger just to mention a few, do not require Visa to visit Philippines. Recently Singapore introduced same for Nigerians. This is just as a result of the crimes by our brothers and Sisters in the name of making money to the expense of other people. Why should one make friends with people on Tagged, friendster, Imesh etc only to fashion out ways to defraud these people that became friends with an honest heart. Nigerians that are in this should be exposed at all cost, because it is the height of wickedness, to steal from a friend, the worst is stealing from someone that loves you with all his/her heart.

The embassies of Nigeria all over the world are not even helping matters at all, because some of these crimes are done with help of some embassy staffs. It is not enough to just register our citizens with the embassies without monitoring what they are really doing in these countries. The embassies should sit up to their duties of investigating these people on a regular basics, at least for the sake of giving our nation a good name. The embassies should stop being lazy and face what they are meant to be doing. All over there is no embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that can account for what their citizens in that country are doing or the citizens that are there as tourist, students or even employed foreigner, none. It is not same for other nations, Singapore, Canada, The US etc, what makes them different is performance, they perform their duties effectively and efficiently without thinking of personal gains. We can if we wish to make it better, there are so many honest Nigerians that are suffering as a result of these crimes. So yes we can stop them.