NIGERIA: CITADEL OF CRAZE

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Nigeria is described as the most populous black nation. It is often said that one in every five black men living is a Nigerian and this comes with some boastful territory but what you won't  hear is that Nigeria is a madhouse. A base of impunity and the fountain of corruption. How do you explain a people who personify greed and gullibilty? How do you describe a nation that exhorts religion above righteousness? A  nation where persons of low moral values occupy our highest offices?

Pastors and Imams line their pockets with riches stolen from our commonwealth and then look away when the rulers suck and lick us dry. Then they mount their cursed pulpits and spew out hatred. The pastors remind us of how we should not be easily yoked with unbelievers while the imams propagate and reemphasise the need to behead infidels.  Imagine their retinue of security personnel. Yet they claim God is their defence.

I have come to see religion and politics as Siamese twins. They are quite inseparable especially when the conjoining points are at critical and vital parts of the body like the brain and heart. Joining at these points make it almost inseparable and so it is when men of God or more aptly described 'gods of men' taste what the politicians "enjoy" they lose their callings and conscience and stop being the conscience of the nation. Truth is sacrificed on the altar of greed.

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