Economic Growth in Nigeria: "The Challenges"

"Challenge of Economic Growth in Nigeria”

Kingsley Moghalu

1. Nigeria must establish an economic philosophy from which its economic vision will be derived, and set out a vision that will drive economic policy and management. Such a vision must make clear the respective roles of the state and the market, and its position on capitalism and its various adaptations – entrepreneurial, crony capitalism, state capitalism, and welfare capitalism. The economic ecosystem will operate and be managed within this framework.
2. Economic management should be overhauled. The President should establish a full-time Council of Economic Advisers, headed by a Chairman that will serve as Chief Economic Adviser, that researches and monitors the economy 24/7 and advises the President on actions to take to enhance economic growth. This council, composed of 5 or 6 members, should be Nigeria’s economic team. Ministers holding economic portfolios should not be members of this team; rather they should focus on execution and the achievement of targets set by the President, as advised by the Council of Economic Advisers. The Council’s members should have expertise in the main areas of economic growth ambition or policy such as fiscal policy (in particular taxation reform), industrial policy, trade policy, energy economics, and economic history, economic philosophy and political economy.
3. From 2019, the Federal Government of Nigeria should establish a concrete economic diversification plan with a concr

HERE IS WHY I AM AGAINST CATTLE COLONY

History is strongly against its contemplation. Please tell whoever cares to listen.
This is for those who try to make compelling case for the economic advantages of cattle colony proposals.

Can we also get the in-depth look at the political and socio-cultural implications and complications viz-a-viz the fears
WHAT IS COLONY?
The stories of Zamani Lekwot and Col. Yohanna Madaki. Cattle colony is not a new thing in Nigeria. It has existed long before independence and it is called Zango. Zoro has existed in many areas of Yoruba land. Till today, there is Sango Otta, the home country of our former president. Sango is a corruption of Zango.
There is Zangon Kataf in Zonkwa, Kaduna State. When the Fulani's came there, they did not tell the natives that they were coming to settle. They just asked for a small land by the market as shed to sell cattle.
This was granted them. The Fulani's soon gained entrance into Kafanchan town andbefore long, they turbanned one of themselves and addressed him, Emir of Jemaa.Jemaa in Hausa means, ALL. When the natives raised eye brow, they said theempire was going to be their own king, not the Kafanchan people.
During the military, the Southern Kaduna people got a local government with the name, Jemaa Local Government. Later, Zonkwa got a separate local government and the local government was named Zangon Kataf Local Government. The emir of Jemaa go.

The Jihadist Nigerian Army and the Police

PLEASE READ THIS PATIENTLY TO THE END AND PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO NUMBER-11 AND NUMBER-24:

"We have, contrary to the claims of the Jihadist Army, investigated, found and come out with the following 37-Points Of Facts; shaming, rubbishing and exposing the false claims and ulterior motives of the Jihadist Nigerian Army and the Police:

(1) That the Jihadist Nigerian Army raised false insecurity alarms in the Southeast with ulterior or dubious intents;

(2) that street protests are not armed rebellion or traditional street crimes of kidnapping, armed robbery or murder, etc;

(3) that IPOB and MASSOB are not armed opposition groups waging war against the Federal Republic of Nigeria or any part thereof;

(4) that Southeast Zone is the most peaceful Zone to live in Nigeria; as clearly attested to by a recent UN Report and it is not a war zone or a zone at war with the Federal Government or Federal Republic of Nigeria;

(5) that there are no security threats of unprecedented proportion or Northeast magnitude in the Southeast Zone warranting the present military siege or police state in the Zone.

(6) That  the Jihadist Nigerian Army is crude and an illiterate army with no knowledge of the meaning and definition of Rules of Engagement;

(7) that  the Jihadist Nigerian Army has  continued to criminalize and stigmatize the non-violent activities of IPOB to the point of saddening and alarming proportions;

(8) that while the Southeast, which is a Zone in peace and non-war Zone is being hunted, persecuted and pushed to the wall; the troubled Zones like Northeast and violent groups like the Fulani Janjaweed are being cuddled, petted and protected (i.e. see military roadblocks along Umuahia-Aba Federal Road and blanket protections provided to Fulani cattle rearers and their herds of cattle where cattle are valued more than lives of road users on Southeast Roads).

(9) That the Jihadist Nigerian Army and its Commander-in-Chief are killing, wounding, torturing and persecuting citizens of the Southeast Zone that have chosen non-violence and law-abiding living; whereas violent entities and Zones including Boko Haram and Fulani Janjaweed are being rewarded and given presidential treat and protection;

(10) that there are no credible official crime statistics from the Nigeria Police Force in the Southeast Zone, detailing the patterns and trends of violent crimes such as kidnapping and armed robbery in the Zone; showing increase or decrease; warranting the involvement of the  Jihadist Nigerian Army in the flooding of the Zone with troops and weapons.

(11) That soldiers are not professionally trained to catch kidnappers and armed robbers or arsonists or burglars or rapists; or engage in fighting street crimes and they do not have mental and ICT expertise to do same;

(12) that hiding under the guise of “fighting kidnappers and armed robbers” as a cover to actualize their Jihadist intents have been exposed and shamed;

(13) that the Jihadist Nigerian Army resorted to such useless and mockery excuses as a cover to execute their Jihadist and ethnic cleansing operations;

(14) that the use of Fulani Herdsmen by the Jihadist Nigerian Army as one of the excuses for invasion of the Southeast is deliberate and a further cover to be hidden under to perpetrate its planned unprovoked war or mass killing and torture mission.

 (15) That the Fulani Janjaweed or Herdsmen have massacred over 140 defenceless Christians in Southern Kaduna alone, in the past six months; yet the  Army turns  blind eyes; likewise similar massacring of hundreds of others in Agatu (Benue State), Nimbo (Enugu State), Akokwa (Imo State), Asaba and its environs (Delta State) and reported ongoing massacre  in Abia communities of Abia State, etc; with the  Jihadist Nigerian Army looking the other way; but wasting unnecessary energy and weaponry chasing, massacring, wounding, torturing and persecuting defenceless Igbo-Christians in furtherance of its Jihadist and ethnic cleansing.

(16) That the Jihadist Nigerian Army operation by way of total blockage of the 51years Old Onitsha Bridge; a major gateway to Igbo Land, is solely meant to collapse and sink the Bridge so as to cut the Southeast Zone off from the rest of the country; when it ought to know that the Bridge critically needs round-the-clock decongestion and lesser traffic gridlock especially in this critical festive period;

(17) that the operations of the Jihadist Nigerian Army are deliberately commenced this crucial festive period in Igbo Land so as to punish, torture and persecute the Igbo Race for being predominant Christians and deprive them of their sacred rights to commemorate the birth of their Saviour Jesus Christ;

(18) that the Army operations are also meant to strangulate the Igbo Race or Southeast Zone socially, culturally and economically.

(19) That the Jihadist Nigerian Army operations commenced in this crucial festive period in Igbo Land are geared towards creation of a sort of “Concentration Camp” by way of total blockage of the Onitsha Niger Bridge; particularly along Asaba-Niger Bridge and Niger Bridge-Onitsha Upper Iweka axis by trapping and jam-packing thousands of Xmas returnees with their families and livestock and other perishable items, so as to get them suffocated, fainted or died in their large numbers;

(20) that the Jihadist Nigerian Army operations are also in crude and shameless response to the recent Amnesty International Report on massacre of at least 150 Pro Biafra Campaigners by the Jihadist Army; a confirmation of Intersociety’s earlier findings of the massacre by army and others of at least 250 non-violent and unarmed Pro Biafra campaigners between July/August 2015 and May 2016.

(21) That the Jihadist Nigerian Army’s response is in the form of show of shame, force and impunity;

(22) that the Jihadist Nigerian Army operations are designed to inflict the Igbo Race with psychological torture and permanently treat them as a conquered people and further massacre them on  the road with impunity in addition to over 250 unarmed and defenceless Igbo citizens and over 300 others it massacred or terminally wounded since July/August 2015;

(23) that the Army operations are purely an army of occupation designed to occupy the Southeast permanently with attendant atrocious and butchery outcomes.

 (24) That Intersociety and SBCHROs’ reason for referring to the Nigerian Army as “Jihadist Nigerian Army” particularly in the Southeast Zone, follows total takeover and domination of its command and rank and file by officers and citizens of northern Muslim background or Hausa-Fulani hegemony who are filled with intolerance, crude and butchery mindsets; whereby the GOC of the 82nd Division in Enugu: Major Gen Ibrahim Attahiru; the Deputy Army Spokesman of the 82nd Division: Col Sagir Musa and his predecessor, Col Hamza Gambo; the Commandant of the 302 Artillery Regiment, Onitsha, Col Isa Abdullahi Maigari; the leader of the military massacre operation of 29th and 30th of May 2016 at Nkpor, Onitsha and Asaba; Major M.I. Ibrahim of the Military Police;  and the Commander of the 144 Battalion of the Nigerian Army at Ukwa in Abia State; Lt Col Kasim Sidi Umar; who spearheaded the 9th of February 2016 massacre of over 30 IPOB members in Aba, are all from Hausa-Fulani Muslim background; likewise domination of other strategic command positions and over 70% of the rank and file or combatants by citizens of northern Muslim background.

(25) That another ulterior motive behind the Jihadist Nigerian Army operations in Igbo Land or Southeast Zone is for the purpose of criminal enrichment or illegitimate pocketing of hundreds of millions of naira from the Southeast Roads by way of organized road crime or roadblock extortion through open and closed sources;

(26) that recent update of the Intersociety on road crimes committed by police and military personnel (i.e. army and navy) clearly showed that there are not less than 200 military roadblocks and 1000 police roadblocks on Southeast Roads as at 4th of December 2016;

(27) that in those roadblocks, various forms of extortion are applied to rob the motorists and other road users at official gunpoint.

(28) That while soldiers and navy use structured form of extortion (i.e. hiring of civilians or garage touts to forcefully collect tolls on their behalf), the police use open method or direct extortion at gunpoint;

(29) that the choice of Southeast Roads is because of its blue-collar nature or high commercial and cash transactions;

(30) that as a result, the Jihadist Nigerian Army commanders and their foot soldiers in the Southeast Zone; with transmission of routine monthly brown envelopes (returns) to their superiors in Abuja; collectively and crookedly smile to bank on daily basis with tens of millions of naira derived from roadblock extortion;

(31) that empirical evidence at our investigative disposal shows that the Nigeria Police in the Southeast Zone and its Roads had in the past 14 months or between October 2015 and December 2016, criminally collected and pocketed a total of N9.1Billion from roadblock extortion on Southeast Roads.

(32) That our updated checks as at today show that there are not less than 250 police roadblocks on Anambra’s Federal and State Roads as well as its city roads and that each police roadblock extorts minimum of N50 note and average of N100 note from each commercial motorist; translating to at least N30,000  for each police roadblock; N7.5million daily from not less than 250 police roadblocks; N225million monthly and N2.7Billion per year;

(33) that the same facts and circumstances are applicable to Abia State; another major blue-collar State after Anambra State; with its 250 police roadblocks criminally pocketing N2.7Billion per year;

(34) that Imo State; a lesser blue-collar State, has at least 200 police roadblocks to its name; with each police roadblock pocketing not less than N15,000 daily; N3Million for its 200 police roadblocks per day, N90Million per month and N1.08Billion per annum.

(35) That Enugu and Ebonyi States with relatively white-collar or civil service sub culture, have at least 300 police roadblocks to their names on average of 150 each; and each of the police roadblock criminally pockets at least N15,000 pay day and N4.5Million for the 300 police roadblocks per day; N135Million per month and N1.62Billion per year; on average of N810Million for each of the two States;

(36) that in all, the police personnel at over 1000 police roadblocks mounted on Southeast Roads have between January 2016 and December 2016 criminally collected and pocketed from Southeast commercial road users a total of N8.1Billion; with Anambra State accounting for N2.7Billion; Abia State N2.7billion; Imo State N1.08Billion; Enugu State N810Million; and Ebonyi State N810Million;

(37) that added to N1.03Billion criminally collected and pocketed between 21st October and 21st December 2015 by not less than 750 police roadblocks then on Southeast Roads; the total roadblock theft by the Nigeria Police Force in the past 14 months from Southeast Roads is N9.13Billion.
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The Son of Otuoke

The Son of Otuoke
by Okoro Benedict Chinedum
No ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian - Jonathan
I am not desperate to serve - Jonathan

Whatever happens today, no matter the direction of the pendulum, we owe the sustenance of this democracy to this Jonathan. Tolerance and accommodation are the wings upon which opposition and competitive government is enthroned. Jonathan introduced this in Nigeria. The opposition party chanting 'change' couldn't have even conceived the idea with certain people as President. Like the lamb led to the slaughter, Jonathan has kept his Christlike mien even in the face of daunting conspiracies. He has carried his cross like the Son of David, not minding the gangs who have filed out on his path, hauling insults and mocking his human nature on the social media. Like a monk he has committed his strength to unsavory concentration and contemplating on how to set Nigeria on redemptive course. Without resort to campaign and adverts to his achievements, he has carried on even to the astonishment of his party men. It is on record that Jonathan is the moving spirit of political refinement, never thought of in Nigeria.
Without boosting of his Presidential paraphernalia as the most populous black nation in the world, nor relying on his executive accretions, Jonathan has allowed himself to be mocked on his journey to national transformation. Look at what the power of the President of Nigeria looks like. Upon realizing his powers as the President of Nigeria, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida exclaimed, 'The man in power has the capacity to stir human destiny to any direction'. Again, he told his audience that 'we are not just in power, but also in charge'. These utterances were all put to test in his regime and the results were felt!
Despite the abounding evidence of his strides in development, the Sadducees, Chief Priests and Scribes of this nation have tried this man at an undisclosed Sanhedrin and condemned him to death. I am tempted to assert that, even Jesus got better fair hearing, than Jonathan. Today, as the Peoples' Court rises either in commendation or condemnation of the Son of Otuoke, one thing is certain that Africa's underdevelopment is not a plague from the gods, they are manmade either by external forces or internal orchestration. The overlords who the architects of this macabre dance, if they ever succeed will become the drivers of the 'new government' whose destination is predictable.

Weighing Lives Lot Less to Religion: Story of Nigeria & Politics

There are two futures of a rickety state, a rightful heir to the king or the invasion. Since the time, people getting killed and inexplicably abuse for their social existence and abundant blood reign, no leader kept the head up against Boko Haraam and any other foreign invader in Nigeria. The state once was boasted to be the plateau of peace and freedom, rarely anything related to these terms now exist on this land with the middle belt as the main victim of the anguish.

The rivalries of ethnic groups have roots in its colonial history, but do any visionary came up to candle the way towards making this place live-able? The stats show a deadly face, trumpeting over 800 lives in 2 years becoming victim of massacre, only few know the core reason. Every tier government and parties, from states to federal are clinging, waiting, hoping to go something right. The unfinished law book and week court of order are only catalyzing the raging impunity between religions and communities. Even the “truth and justice” drum beating NGOs have only accomplished episodic success in curbing over the riots.

Unlike Afghanistan or other terror ridden unstable states Nigerian heads denied to be ruled by the better governance and protection and are too indoctrinate to bring the same prosperity of past by letting UN forces or nations to take a leap. The brittle wall once impregnated is now being easily broken by the International jihadist Islam due to the intra collisions and insecurity within the nation.

Both the economic and religious crisis surfaced this epidemic situation and the only way out to find the forbidden irony is to keep the trust, faith in more capable companions (Like UN) and joining hands to find an answer. Looking at the liable faces, the most insulting are the leading countrymen joining hands with terror groups and motivating plurality of religions. These politicians give a major setback culminating the nation as just the anecdotic confusion of various states fighting against each other. Though, Nigeria has a predominant slave history, but as the rage went upon an independent country, Nigeria became a federal on the sacrificing heads of politicians. The unity demanded selfless contribution to bring livelihood and self dependence foe the country, which is exactly not happening with division and invasion of Nigeria as multi groups fighting for resources.

Albeit, Government stationed military operations nationwide, but apart from the jihadist being the clear shot, who else they point upon? The government should seek drastic reforms or even total cut outs of areas which are dangerous, whether the misguided activist is in house or a foreigner. The Abuja government needs to listen the voice of Humanitarians and get assist from them to find able democrats and republicans across the globe to deal with the riot turned massacre. The nation still holds spheres of stability, breach the zones of Haram Islamizes and de facto communalism before they outreach to the whole nation and make it abundant.

Afam Ogene:Not Worthy in Character & Learning

Afam Ogene: Not Worthy in Character & Learning? 

A Japanese adage holds, ‘If you want to harvest for a year, plant rice; for a decade plant trees, and for a life time, plant education’. From the foregoing, logical deduction finds solace that rice is harvested annually, trees are harvested in decades, whereas the principles learnt in education are eternal. It is this intrinsic deposits made by education that stands it out from other human endeavors and achievements. Hence, all over the world academic certificates are awarded on the modest caveat ‘…found worthy in character and learning’. It is no rocket science that the conduct of an educated mind is an emblem. The current crisis rocking the Nigeria state is the dearth of supposed educated minds to conduct themselves in like manner. Hence, we are trapped in the mire conjectures of men and women who are perceived as being educated; but are actually functional illiterates.
It is from this sea of inability to conduct themselves as educated minds that the Hon. Afam Ogene, Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Publicity and his co travelers have embarrassed this nation beyond human contemplation. Barely, weeks after Ogene, held press conference on Tambuwal’s defection to defend the indefensible, he took sarcasm to imaginary lanes, just to tell us that he’s Speaker’s Chief Press Secretary. How a speaker who emerged from a majority party, from where he garnered votes that made him speaker, suddenly jumped ship, to a minority party in the House and still retain his position as speaker only exists in Ogene’s sensory delusions. Part of what seem like Ogene’s intellectual impairment, even as journalist is his limitations in discerning that his support for a man who cannot be entrusted with sensitive public office is a menace. Tambuwal’s claim that his people have preference for his new party, smacks of his perfunctory status. So, Sokoto matters more to Tambuwal, than Nigeria? The irony of the applause is that as a typical Fulani man, Sokoto mattered to Tambuwal, but the Ogbaru people and Ndi Igbo doesn’t matter to Ogene! It is this blind and slavish followership that led Ogene into flying the National Assembly gate to a world in awe; just to prove to his speaker that he is loyal. Ogene, not only flew National Assembly fence, he supervised other House members and aided the weaker ones like Femi Gbajagbiamila to come over to Macedonia. This speaks volume of Victor Ogene’s lawless nature and destabilizing tendencies. Again, like the big bang the questions sounds, whose interest is Ogene serving in the House? His overt hobnobs with APC indicates that he has elected to be leprous. And should be treated like a leper. Perhaps, THE Inspector General of Police, Abba Sulaiman’s refusal to recognize Tambuwal as the Speaker before the House Committee on Police will open another chapter in the unfolding the melodrama. Sahara Reporters, captured it thus, ‘The IG had opened his statement explaining why the police invaded the house last week by rehashing the initial police statement that they had credible intelligence that some thugs had planned on causing mayhem at the resumed sitting of the house. He said this intelligence led them to send policemen to the house to confront the thugs.
He proceeded to say that one Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal led a group of thugs to overpower the security at the first gate. A move he claimed led the police to lock down the second gate and fire a canister of teargases’.
‘However, his reference to the “Speaker of the House as “one Alhaji Tambuwal” drew the ire of committee members who asked the IGP to properly address the speaker of the house according to protocol. The house committee members asked the IGP to revisit the way he addressed the speaker, the IG then said the case of the speaker was in court and as such he wouldn’t like to comment further on it’.
‘The committee member refused to proceed with the hearing until the IGP properly addressed the speaker. They said as long as he refuses to do so, they too would no longer recognize him as IG. The prolonged argument brought the meeting to a standstill and eventually a rancorous end as members walked out on the IGP’.
But, how far Tambuwal can go can truly be predicted as we all watched Sanusi eat the humble pie. In my village, a common parlance holds, those who want to battle with the gods had given their chosen ones’ must first battle with their tears!
According to Ag CP Emmanuel Ojukwu at Police Press Briefing on 20th November, 2014 on the incident at the National Assembly Abuja, alarmed by APC’s threats at the rally at Eagle Square days earlier, the police deployed their men to keep vigil on sensitive government properties which Governor Amechi had ostensibly made reference to that will be torched, to drive home their madness. Their agenda is to cow Nigerians into bowing to their threats in 2015. The police adopted a stop and check routine at the National Assembly complex, an exercise meant to benefit all and sundry. Other House members arrived calmly, subjected themselves to check and were allowed in. When Tambuwal and the likes of Ogene who by the virtue of being Honorable members are above law and order arrived, mayhem took over the scene as they refused to be checked and of course, were denied access to a public edifice erected with tax payers’ money. Unknown to the cursory reader, being an Honorable member doesn’t guarantee access to the National Assembly. If there are security issues likely to endanger the lives of Nigerians, the police reserve the onus to seal of the place; in such a situation, National Assembly is not an exception.
Let us also note that the police don’t owe anybody explanations or seek permission to act when matters that pose threat to national security stare them in the face.
In August, Anambra people led by their amiable governor Mr. Willie Obiano under the APGA platform and declared their unassuming support for President Jonathan. That exercise was to lend their unalloyed support to a President who despite designed distractions by his detractors has vested considerable energy in the making of a true African State. His ability to have managed his temper, carriage and deployed his strength towards national reconstruction makes Jonathan the ‘Most Important Leader in 21^st Century’.
It was on this same political platform of APGA that the people of Ogbaru elected Hon. Afam Ogene to represent them at the Green Chambers. In his bid to curry favor in opaque quarters, Ogene have abandoned the ideals and manifesto of his party, references abound. As he throws his feather weight behind his bosom friend from Sokoto, he should find out what happened to Austin Nwachukwu and Dino Melaye, the circumstantial human right activist as honorable members at the Green Chambers. As for Tambuwal, studies have shown that Speakers of House of Representathieves often don’t end well: Ghali Umar Naba, Bello Massari, Saliu Buhari, Patricia Eteh and Dimeji Bankole. His will not be an exception.

by Emeka Odinammadu

The dynamism of corruption

The dynamism of corruption

• Friday, 21 November 2014 00:00
• Written by Fry N. Ndubuisi


CORRUPTION has become a re-curing decimal in our quest for greatness and nationhood. It is here with us in every facet of our national life. No matter how much lies we want to tell about it, Nigeria is seen and rated as a  very corrupt nation all over the world. We can call it ‘common stealing, ‘official dereliction of duties’ ‘embezzlement of public funds’ ‘favouritism’ ‘unfair treatment,’ ‘unjust treatment’ ‘dishonesty,’ corruption has not allowed this nation to move forward. It comes in different forms, but it is tragic that when we talk of corruption our mind goes only to misappropriation of public funds. That is part of the truth, definitely not the whole truth about corruption. From whatever perspective we view it, corruption revolves around dishonest use of opportunities to our advantage. The issue is how honest have we been in the running of the affairs of the nation. The world is now a global village, we can no longer hide our activities from the binocular of the international community. Thus Nigeria was ranked 144 out of the 177 most corrupt nations in the world, by Transparency International’s 2013 corruption perception index. We should be worried about this as it says a lot about us.
   How much both in resources and development has  the nation lost as a result of corruption. The public service is seen as  a fertile ground for corruption. Nothing is done the way it ought to be done, even in recruitment of personnel;  favouritism and considerations other than merit is the order thereby allowing wrong and incompetent hands  to be in charge of very sensitive positions. It is an open secret that before you get  hired  in some establishment you must know key personnel there, or be ready to bribe your way through. I just remember an incident that took place sometime ago about a friend that told me he needed the services of a young accountant in his outfit. I recommended someone I was convinced would satisfy his need. After all the protocol and oral interviews, he decided to employ who was close to him, not who can  serve the purpose he was after. That is the trend in Nigeria both in the private and public sectors. What gives you jobs now is who you know and not your competence and capacity to prove your worth.
   The impact of corruption has hit this country most hard in infrastructural development. In spite of all the measures the government claimed to put in place: due process, and all that, it is a brute fact that contracts are not awarded to the best and the most competitive firms. Lobbying is more vital than competence, skill and experience. That explains why there are series of abandoned projects or half-heartedly executed projects all over the country. In some rural areas, boreholes only pump water the day they are  commissioned. After that, the equipment is allowed to rust away until another politician decides to revisit them. It is sad, that the government wastes billions of naira and time to execute projects and such projects are either abandoned half way or cease from functioning a few months after they were commissioned. Doors and keys of public buildings  become useless a few weeks after being fixed; painted halls washed away by rains few months after being commissioned. Yet there are designated officials that must certify such works before certificate of discharge is issued and final payment made. 
   Some have reasoned that there is overt official policy to promote corruption in the country. How do we make sense, out of government’s low cost housing project that sells for N50 million per unit and civil servants, that earn less than two million naira are meant to buy this. The mortgage banks are in business and they know who their funds go to.  And really, Nigerians  have been quite clever beating the government to its game. Imagine a city like  Abuja that could be seen as civil servants city, what apartments go for, the people that live there and the wonder on wheels they cruise on.    
  Nobody asks question as those that are supposed to ask are more guilty of the offence that alleged. Some have argued that it is an herculean task to tackle corruption in an environment such as ours, where there is no social security, where public services such as public schools and hospitals are below standard. It is survival of the fittest, many have reasoned.
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