Nigeria and the traitor within

In my generation of Nigerians, political thugs, assassins, arsonists, executive fraudsters and murderous public officers are let off the hook in the wake of suspicious plea bargaining and bullying of the state.
Such realities suggest rapid deterioration of our morals and mind.
And the reasons are hardly far-fetched: despite our professed righteousness, the Nigerian society ennobles mindless profiteering off the state by public officers and their associates. The situation worsened by ‘Nigerians’ and seeming desperation to substitute virtue for vice and approximate the rewards for uprightness to loathsome ridicule, and an inclination to witch-hunt the just and ethically sound.
This does not imply that certain honest individuals do not exist in our clime, but they are persistently repudiated and consumed by the system they are committed to serve. Nigeria’s culture, despite our claims to probity, in fact, reveals a deeper evil than we renounce.
It reveals the extent to which pretentiousness, selfishness and greed erode the average Nigerian’s capacity to grasp the precepts of honesty, human rights and associated values.
It reveals a culture from which the expectations and realities of humanity has been totally wiped out.
The downside is that public officers, we elect to serve as the means to the attainment of our various ends, end up exploiting us as the means to insane ends.
The greedier we evolve, the more neurotic we become, as elected representatives and electorate, in our practice of leadership and citizen “for the general good of society,” “for the good of future generations,” and everything and anything, except humankind.
Hence the appalling recklessness with which we acquiesce to bestiality of all kinds, accept betrayal and the most atrocious mode of leadership indefatigably imposed by a treacherous minority on our wanton majority.
A unilateral breach of contract characterises the Nigerian leadership.
Governance in Nigeria today, involves the most insidious form of tyranny exemplified by wanton disregard for human lives and an indirect use of physical force.
Umar Duguri, Kaduna