The previous term is as pandemic as it is endemic to the national economy. Why? This is due to the fact that the virus as an organism behaves like a time bomb and reproduces every millisecond of its offspring. Corruption has been described as a virus because it reproduces itself as the fabric of society allows. The words of wisdom say that “charity begins at home” and here and now Nigeria will be the focal point of my speech.
National reserves have been seriously depleted, many businessmen are moving their businesses to Ghana while domestic loans are on the rise. All of these are an indicator that the nation is infected with a virus diagnosed as corruption. Furthermore, this has continued despite the instituted and assumed anti-corruption crusade program. The list of organizations fighting corruption includes the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), etc. Let me remind you that corruption is a virus that myriads of all these organizations cannot cure or eliminate.
I think and suggest once again that before our nation can face the poison; we need to heal the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. This is because the masses have seriously learned and visualized the modus operandi of the aforementioned party. I can state categorically that all the other ministries that make up politics buy corruption formulas and implement them in their own sector. They do this to be able to adapt to the structural and organizational bottlenecks that exist in all sectors and also to encourage the spread of the virus. The party in question has injected more power into the virus than it has. How? They see themselves as the only party that has the key and can steer the nation’s ship for their own benefit.
On top of this, at the end of the day, every other political official craves the national cake. While adding more success to the advance fee fraud force, organized crime is the order of the day. The economic development of the nation is nothing to write home about. Why does this situation continue to this day? It’s just because of a pathogenic term corruption virus that plagues all sectors of our economy. Then, in a few months to come, the nation will enter another election period to make way for new groups of leaders to continue the advance fee fraud or to steer the nation’s ship into the right port. Let me say this, let the man with the solution be in position: you can find a reference point of this in the article titled “civil society riots and elections in Guinea”
