My overlong response [lol.....the email I was responding to was about 3 lines long] was:
If you pay a policeman too little to feed his family, how do you want him to survive?
I hate people hating on the police for taking bribes etc when they don't realise that it's not their fault, it's our fault. You want a man to protect the peace when he has no home to shelter his family?
A boy goes to school and gets a degree in chemical engineering, but cannot get a job anywhere then we get angry that he cheated some greedy SOB who wanted $2,000,000 of Abacha's money that he didnt work for?
Unfortunately women dont get accused of the same crimes, because women in Nigeria don't do that. Our society is so sick that it is much easier for a naija girl to find a rich man who has abandoned his real family [his son is probably the one sending 419 emails, because his father said his mother was a witch and refused to continue paying school fees] and is willing to pay for her housing, food clothing, and whatever else she may need for a little loving on the side.And her poor policeman father cannot open his mouth and ask her not to do it because he knows that she is paying her 4 younger siblings school fees and putting food on the table which he couldn't dream of doing because he hasn't been paid in 3
months.
*sigh*
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so i had a long ass personal response to this. lol. i'm not saying anything.
but to play advocate, all you mentioned is not to excuse for men that cheat and steal. there are still some good, hard working people in nigeria- and they get robbed too. it's one thing to be robin hood...but why is that fella robbing his neighbor?
"Women don't do that." i didn't get that statement.
anyways...bottom line is that it's wrong, ignorant and fucked up to generalize someone based you other people's doing.
god bless nigeria.
The Nigerian Police is your friend.
Nigeria we hail indeed!
I am a Nigerian, l want to say, that God bless Nigeria but our value system, our leaders, lack of planning, our education system are not what it should be. We are too greedy that when we are put in any place to manage, we think of ourselves and family alone, what happens to the nation is not our concern, those that are watching can not rebuke such except they want to die. The so called quotal systems should be eliminated if we must develope, quality and good work must be appreciated. Equal opportunity must be given to all. All those that put the country in this mess should be made to pay for it by declaring their assets as government properties. The salary structure should made equivalent to what conterparts earns in the US/Europe while the government should be involve in regulating prizes of essential commodities. Cheating and bribering will stop. We must know that God, our maker is watching over all of us, we should fear Him.
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