Nigeria! The Fallen Giant by Prince Okey Emezu

NIGERIA, the most populous Black Country, is in the prison of corruption. Corruption is Nigerian’s Achilles heels, and its bane. It has eaten off the moral fabric of Nigeria, and it is asphyxiating the country, too. Can a country that is bedeviled by corruption grow? The answer is a categorical NO!  And all of us are keeping quite and sitting at ease, freedom from pain, worry and agitation. Not even a single voice anymore.

We are in dexterity and facilitation while our country of the  21century still dwell in the poor state of the12 century countries. Giant of Africa, giant in what sense? The small countries like Ghana and Senegal has taken over the stage. 

Fela has gone, Gani Fawemi, the Senior Advocate of the Masses is no longer around,  they paid the big  price and were rewarded by posterity. NLC is no longer a voice. So things has gone this bad? Where are the Femi Falanas? Has the Kayamos gone to oblivion? Probably 'things are getting better' as sang by former President Olusegun Obasanjo? I guess not and believes your guest is as good as mine.

The conscience and the fighting spirits of most of the Nigerian NGOs, Human Right Groups, NLC etc all have been eclipsed by this dark cloud of corruption. It has rained and we have been wet and soaked in it- corruption.

This latest designs of the 'Ghana Must Go' bags and the Brown envelopes of the 'Abuja and state boys' has suddenly replaced those thoughts and unshakable aspirations of the Saro-Wiwas that made them rejects an ambassadorial position offered to them in order to persuade them to drop their quest and agitation for a better Nigeria. They are sure weapons for silencing the oppositions 'in a friendly manner'.
Where is our fighting spirits and where have we gone wrong. Must we 'lay where we fall'?  ''Woe unto that king that sits on wine while his subject die in war'.

What is corruption? The dictionary defines corruption as ''The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. I irretrievably can say without equivocation that corruption exists in Nigeria and every where. The From the Presidency to the House of Reps., all levels of state and local government, the party officials,  INEC, not even the banking, stock exchange and brokers, insurance are spared from this ravaging bugs, from the Military down to the police, the judiciary, from the ivory towers down to the secondary and primary school, from the airport to the see ports, Federal Road safety, even in nollywood, sex before a role, parents hire surrogate candidates to write their children's exams. Where do we start and where do we end this? The list is innumerable. Will Nigeria ever be good again? Corruption rears its ugly head in all facets of our national life.

A Nigerian who is not corrupt is considered to be an abnormal human being. He is called a “mugu”, which means a sucker in English. We have a culture of corruption into which Nigerian leaders socialises. Our leaders past and present, from the dictatorial to what is obtainable today, they all initiated and socialised the whole country into this culture of corruption.

We must rise to make a change. Can the voiceless masses, the poor ici water seller at Onitsha , that Brukutu seller in Kano and the 'hopeless' kunu seller at Oshodi, the okada riders, the labourers at Amingo and other Chinese and Lebanese companies who receives not less 20 thousands naira 100euro a month count on you for a change ? The people are groaning for this change. Don't sit back! 5million man and woman match to Abuja Jan 2014.

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