My Views

Ideally the legislators are potentially the most important figures when a society wants to outgrow her counterparts.  For our dear society, it is not like that. We send people to represent us when we want to reward an obedient party member, or to resolve a conflict between to politicians, or when someone happens to be the favourite son and many other unnecessary excuses.  But all along, we are drowning ourselves, for the legislative is a place for people who know what their society really need. Most of the people we send end up sleeping in public, some do not understand the language of cummunication. While our counterpart societies' legislators are busy presenting better policies that will benefit their regions and put it on top of all others, our lawmakers are nowhere to be traced. We send such hopeless people to the Houses to the extent that, in the end, we loose everything. These are people who do not have inner connection with their society, people who cannot see what thei...

If the government is serious about fighting bribery and corruption, then it should reshape the concept of policing in the country. Why do I feel like Nigerian Police is the only huge body that is not generating revenue? Most of the cases of bribery and corruption in this country are being patronized by police. Most of us were compelled to be corrupt because that’s the only way we can act normally in Nigeria. Whenever there is a case and police involved, then an incidence of bribery and/or corruption will likely occur. I carefully looked at the structure of policing in Nigeria. The revenue allocation for administrative duties of Police Service Commision is relatively inadequate due to Nigeria’s high population demand. More interesting is that there is no reliable and formal source of revenue generation in Nigerian Police. For example, bail is free, if you pay for it, it is corruption, what is the logical wisdom behind saying that bail is free? Therefore when you go to a police station ...