Nigeria is at the cross-road of moral crisis. We need messiahs who can salvage the mess that Nigeria has become. Our country, Nigeria, stinks to high heaven with evil doings, criminal activities and others. Our economic stagnation and technological backwardness are interlinked to our lack of positive morality and spirituality.
Recently, a bum and computer nerd hacked my email and facebook accounts, and sent messages via them begging for financial help. I couldn’t access my facebook account and email, and I was terribly worried. I feared that some unscrupulous person who is internet savvy had hacked my facebook account. My fears were confirmed when I received a phone call from a friend who told me that some fellow had sent scam messages via my facebook account. It’s an unconscionable act for a person to steal another person’s identity. Our leaders should give teeth to laws that punish people who steal other people’s identities.
Those whose identities have been stolen suffer defamation of character.
Should we become hold-outs and luddites in the digital age in order not to become victims of email and facebook hacking with its deleterious concomitant effects? I cannot imagine myself becoming a hermit for fear of falling victim to internet hackers who steal people’s identities to perpetrate crimes. The world has become a global village owing to the existence of improved gadgets of communication in our today’s world.
Now we have identity thieves to contend with. These unscrupulous people have embraced crime in order to earn big money. Perhaps, they are unemployed youths. Unemployment is one of the factors that predispose young people to take to crimes.
I urge the government to stem the tide of unemployment by articulating and executing economic policies that would create jobs for millions of unemployed Nigerians. The minister of finance would reel out statistical data to prove that our economy is growing; yet millions of Nigerians have been reduced to subhuman beings via poverty.
Chiedu Uche Okoye,
Uruowulu-Obosi,
Anambra State
