Frauds in Nigeria, whose faults?

When fraud becomes a culture of a people, it's so sad because it goes so deeply entrenched into the system that it hardly has any known cure. Crime is a human problem though, in all nations of the world. But somehow it has become particularly identified with some nations more than the others. Unfortunately, fraud is not only identified with Nigeria, it is so evident and so prominent that there is no denying of it; even when you want to be a patriot by not just tarnishing the image of your "dear country" yet you cannot just help it because it hangs there right in front of you ready to blow you away.
Fraudsters in Nigeria are becoming much more sophisticated while the Nigerian detective and preventive system are far from being developed. No wonder crimes are often committed and people get away with. Once a criminal is not caught on the scene of crime, there is no hope as to whether or not he would ever be caught again. I was shocked to find how easily people can be apprehended for crimes in the United States. You hardly would get away with it. For instance, you can cash a cheque without necessarily using your ID all the time. It sounds like, 'do it wrong if you like, we will get you' Why can't Nigeria have a system like that? Thank God for security doors. That's only for armed criminals, but your security doors can't stop a brilliant fraudster, you know. The door is nothing but a total embarrassment to the bankers 'esteemed customers' who will sometimes have to remove everything to their belt just because they are unfortunate to keep their money with you. How 'esteemed' are the customers? Someone says it helps for the Nigerian context. Yes, I agree but what would they do to prevent the fraudsters who will not come in with arms? What will they do with those who come in with forged checks? What will they do with bank managers who cheat their company or the bank staff who withdraw people's money from within the system? I think apart from embarrassing the innocent customers with security doors, it may cost less to beef up the system a little bit more. We live in a country that does not know how many people are living in it; talk much of having a social secutrity identification for its residents. You can't trace nobody nowhere. So sad! The complexity of the Nigerian situation doesn't seem to get us a quick fix for every problem being faced in the country! Leadership is it! The very core of the problem is leadership. There is no leadership in Nigeria, that is why Nigerian leaders are themselves prone to crime. The battle against corruption by Obasanjo's civilian regime ended up becoming a political game because the fight must not be thorough or else, Obasanjo himself will not escape it. Lawmakers are law breakers so you wonder who will then initiate a thorough fight against frauds. Is it the fraudsters themselves who fraudulently get into power? Or the law breakers who make laws from which they are exempted? The whole Nigerian system seems to me to be fraudulent! It is so sad.
However, when we blame leadership for our predicament, we are also blaming everyone within the system. Are there not leaders who will never lead among the populace? That is the problem! For fear of being killed they go into hidings.
The leader that has refused to be is you! It will be further saddening if the future of Nigeria will remain bound to corruption by the present just because someone is afraid of standing for her even at the cost of life. We are all praying for our beloved country but the heavens are waiting for someone who might someday be ready to pay for Nigeria. What sacrifice will be too much for the nation's health?
People can risk their lives for political powers but no one is ready to risk their lives for what's right.
So the question is who is at fault with the current rate of Nigerian frauds? The system as a whole, the way it is now, is a breeding ground for more fraudulent activities. Until the system changes, nothing changes!

The Nigerian Sad Story!

It is sad how things are in our nation Nigeria. Sometimes we do not just understand what our problems are. We just know that things aren't going right. The fact is the complexity of the problem makes things look so gloomy and obscures any sense of hope. The Nigerian problem is never that of unavailable resources but 'too much of it', so much that it bred selfishness and greed in the strong and the powerful who use their power to amass as much as they can and ensure that it goes only within their own circle of influence and doesn't get to the masses. The country is thereby impoverished while a few group of people become sweatlessly enriched. Hmmn! Rich people in an acclaimed, "Poor Country", all amount to poverty anyway. It is the sad story of poverty ever told. Some people in Nigeria are so rich that they possess more wealth than even the leaders of some other developed countries, yet they belong to a poor country. Sad story of poverty indeed. Having so much doesn't mean the same thing as prospering. A man's life consist not in the abundance of what he has. That is exactly the Nigerian poverty story, so poor in the midst of abundance. What we lack is not resources but resourcesfulness. The biggest wastage ever have been that of time in traffic congestion and students staying at home endlessly hoping that someday, the Government will be sensitive; wastage of people with brilliant minds and bright futures in avoidable auto wrecks, unequipped medical facilities, unemployment increase and political killings. We have a system that is well accustomed to waste of every fashion and kinds.
The saddest story is that we do not really know what our problems are. Political office holding has become the easiest way to make the easiest kind of money. Waste! If we do not know what the problem is, we are not near a solution yet. What hope have we when we are born Nigerians, a choice we wouldn't have have made if we had it? Is someone somewhere thinking about the way out apart from the propaganda of the existing political system. They keep having Visions they never conceived, no wonder they would shift it over and over again. Are we safe if we would just sit here still for Vision 2020, when Vision 2010 got aborted for reasons they themselves know not of. Will we sit here still and and watch the next innocent generation inherit poverty of spirit soul and body only because they are born Nigerians?
Running out of the country hasn't and will not likely solve our problems. We won't sit here still till we die in poverty of the whole person. Neither will we keep waiting for a Moses or a Joshua that do not exist anywhere. If we must wait for a Moses to deliver Nigeria, then we must have preserved him from the waste that goes on in the country, from the Nile of corruption and greed.
Even if the Moses will not grow up in our time, we can build our own little basket that can float him around the Nile, so that someday whether we are alive or dead, he can carry our influence that can never die into the corridor of power and champion the cause of restoration and rescue for the beloved country, Nigeria. A Moses shall rise, who will sing the Anthem religiously and as an allegiance. That Moses can be you or someone that will carry your influence.

NATIONAL ANTHEMS
Arise O compatriots
Nigeria's call obey
To serve our Fatherland
With love and strength and faith
The labor of our heroes past
Shall never be in vain
To serve with heart and might
One Nation bound in freedom
Peace and Unity.

O God of creation
Direct our noble cause
Guide our leaders right
Help our youth the truth to know
In love and honesty to grow
And living just and true
Great lofty height attain
To build a Nation where peace
And justice shall reign

NATIONAL PLEDGE
I Pledge to Nigeria my country
To be faithful, loyal and honest
To serve Nigeria with all my strength
To defend her unity and uphold her honour and glory
So help me God