More and more, day by day, my choices for
entertainment, leisure, education, communication, recreation, shopping,
technology etc, are being determined in Beijing, Jo Burg, London, New York,
California, South Korea, UAE, Singapore, Bombay and even recently Kenya And
Accra!
Sadly, my "representatives" are busy sharing both our
investment capital and profit, in order to be able to entertain themselves and
their cohorts with the products of these offshore decisions.
We have convinced ourselves, largely due to wholesale
consumption of unfiltered reports from our often interests driven media, that
nothing good can come out of Nigeria and Nigerians, conveniently forgetting the
thousands of examples of people who are doing phenomenal things in an unstable
environment.
The beneficiaries of our self loathing and selective amnesia are
opportunistic foreigners who understand that nature abhors vacuum.
It's time we start recognizing, supporting,
showcasing, celebrating and rewarding our own, instead of savagely tearing each
other to pieces and allowing outsiders to calmly stroll in and pick the pieces,
ship back to their countries, repackage and then sell back to us! Our problem
is not corruption, it's the base mindset that breeds a self-destructive type of
corruption.
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