berem: If the attitude of nigerians is the problem and not corruption,why do we have EFCC, ICPC and other anti-corruption agencies? GEJ is indeed daft!!

nagoma: @ Ikengawo
The Reterdeen and his team of degenerates are at it again . This time in defense of corruption, they will soon be telling us that corruption is good for us as implied by the monkey ikengawo. Jonathan is preventing accidents by refusing to fix roads - since good roads cause accidents . A zero capacity president destroying our country and you guys are looking the other way. I curse them in the name of God.

nagoma:

Yes we should have Ministry of attitude instead! Or independendent Attitudenal Correcction Commission ( IACC). Boils down to war against indiscipline . Perhaps Jona should seek Buhari's help.

Gen. Orumov:
I don't think Disintegration will totally solve our problems. Nigeria's main problem may be tribalism and religion but we have other countries that have more than one tribe and religion but their's isn't as pathetic as Nigeria's. Our major problem is poverty which has led to serious corruption. Even if we disintegrate, corruption which is now part of our orientation and culture will still hold us back. Jonathan has said it all. Attitude is our major challenge.

Ikengawo: He's 100% right. People use corruption as a scapegoat because they're too lazy to think when in reality it's the mentality of the people and attitude that's holding the country back. America is very corrupt. What we call bribes here as called Lobby's in the US and Lobbyists (Bribers) get offices in Washington DC and websites. They pay politicians to do what they want the politicians to do and pay the media to do their own bidding, but the country functions. Everything from inflated contracts to cronyism and ballot manipulation, is in the US openly


the difference is if you pass a law in the US people follow it and whom ever's duty it is to enforce it will enforce it.
If you build a good road in Nigeria people use it to speed. The police hired to enforce it will sleep on he job, and if someone gets in trouble for breaking a law they act like the government is oppressing them.

Most accidents in Nigeria happen on good roads. The only thing stopping Nigerians from going top speed in their cars at all times are potholes.
Nigerians need a new civic culture.
I disagree with u man and Gej. You should have heard about cause-effect relationship before. As Africans especially Nigerians we had right attitude before now, I could remember in the 80's u dare not pick anything that was not yours, then fruit sellers in our local markets would leave them on the counters and would go home and would still meet them safe, same with other wares. Some would even leave notes, stones or a denomination that best price tag for the item sold. But when IBB came in 1985, he allowed corrupt people to grow , then bribe became 'egunje' in d ministries, parastatals, one could not get things done normally again. You must give bribe before people will do their jobs, the good people were suffering while the bad were making
Headways. That was what led to change in the attitude of people. So corruption came first, let us fight corruption and see if attitude will not change, if the bad continue to make and the good are suffering no amount of sermon will change peoples attitude. GEJ goofed again. Bloody thief.

mosun_ade:

LOL. So, you slam your foot on the gas pedal in an intersection with the red lights on and you jam another car head on, and you blame it on one corrupt person somewhere and not on yourself cos you acted foolishly? LOL. SMH. You overrun your speedometer and you have a blow out and die in the process and blame it on the corrupt tendencies of some faceless people? Haba.

You drive with a bottle of Henessey in your glove compartment, sipping it at intervals and you sleep off and ran into the bush and die in the process and then blame it on some politicians somewhere or on some law enforcement? Chuo.

Now, take GEJ out of the picture and think hard to see if you are making sense.

ballabriggs:

I don't need people like you who are professional butt lickers. I have a project already in my constituency and it is about driving young people to be ethically aware. So you can crawl back to wherever you came from and continue in your misery.

We will save Nigeria from the hands of rogues and brigands.

Ikengawo: He's 100% right. People use corruption as a scapegoat because they're too lazy to think when in reality it's the mentality of the people and attitude that's holding the country back. America is very corrupt. What we call bribes here as called Lobby's in the US and Lobbyists (Bribers) get offices in Washington DC and websites. They pay politicians to do what they want the politicians to do and pay the media to do their own bidding, but the country functions. Everything from inflated contracts to cronyism and ballot manipulation, is in the US openly


the difference is if you pass a law in the US people follow it and whom ever's duty it is to enforce it will enforce it.
If you build a good road in Nigeria people use it to speed. The police hired to enforce it will sleep on he job, and if someone gets in trouble for breaking a law they act like the government is oppressing them.

Most accidents in Nigeria happen on good roads. The only thing stopping Nigerians from going top speed in their cars at all times are potholes.
Nigerians need a new civic culture.

Mr. Globe:
The Attitude is caused by poverty. There is so much poverty in the land that Nigerians act weird. For instance take their music taste for example. A normal Nigerian will take Terry G/wizard kid's music over Asa and like that.lol.

btw. i disagree with GEJ. When you fight the pervasive corruption in the land Attitude will change. It is not the other way round.

Ikengawo: Something as simple as forming a line in Nigeria will turn into a fight and people will push themselves and fight to get on a bus that everyone is boarding anyways and is going to leave at the same time and go to the same place whether they're first or not.

People, instead of hiring labor and helping unemployment, will find a 7 year old in their village and make them work for free

People, instead of hiring a graduated professional will hire their incompetent brother or nephew who doesn't take his job seriously
You will give people a good road and they'll drive the opposite of traffic

You will give a community an oil pipeline and they'll drill holes in it, blowing themselves up and polluting their community for the next 100 years.

People worship the rich and treat the poor as less than human even when they themselves are poor.

If you ask a nigerian about nigeria they will go on and on about everything bad in their life and wonder why the nation has a bad image, completely unable to count 1 of God's daily blessings

People harbor criminals if the criminal is from their local government area.



Corruption isn't the issue, it's the people and their attitude towards society.

gudugudumeje: GEJ's is foolishness. He should go back to school to know about society, polity ad economy and the way corruption is the attitude of gangs of self-seeking despots...... he is chief player.

mosun_ade:

Bros. answer me first. Accidents in Abuja with good roads are caused by corruption.? Answer a simple question. I dont care where you have been, I have been all over Nigeria on road.

X-factoria:


You still don't get it.

Using your law enforcement example, it is our attitude that makes people in the Police Force or FRSC not do what they are supposed to do. Our attitude makes corruption thrive, makes us weak to fight it.
It is the same attitude that makes us think Government must solve all our problems when we can actually do some little things that can change a whole lot. We think corruption is just for the government to fight and most times we frustrate government efforts once our brother or kinsman is involved.

Having the right attitude would make corrupt people outliers in our society. It would make the society hell for them.

Gbawe:

Precisely. The man is a disgrace to Nigeria with how, even minimally, he does not understand his role as 'father of the nation'. A total embarrassment always moaning like a powerless victim. If we had a President ready to lead by example, then attitude can change.

You are the number 1 citizen of a Nation yet you are asking for attitudinal change from others when you have never, on any occasion at all, led by example yourself !!! What a load of Kibosh.

It is just tragic we have the worst accidental President leading us in Nigeria. A damning indictment of the lack of political sophistication of Nigerians. Even leaders of average ability, given the sort of power that comes with the Nigerian presidency, will not moan and play perpetual hopeless victim , seeking pity, as GEJ does.

The man is just a very, very, very poor leader. I even feel embarrassed calling him a leader since I understand what the word means to know that it does not describe GEJ in any way at all.

kingoflag:

I.mbecile, in Nigeria, when you get stopped by the cops for drunk driving, do you:

A. Get arrested, taken to jail, and have you license suspended, or;

B. You pay a bribe, continue on your merry way --possibly killing innocent pedestrians-- before you go vomit in the living room and beat up your wife for not waking up to cook isi-ewu for you at 4am in the morning?

duen23: Man is inherently a sinner. Meaning, he will always try to do what's wrong until he grows a conscience. What makes little children steal money from their parents purse? They want some candy (read the better things in life). This kid has no reason to change his attitude if his mum keeps indulging his habit or giving him a 'stern warning'. He might or might not change if a cane is brought into the equation but 'might change' is better than won't change. You need laws to deter people from being corrupt because man is always gonna test the law and if he finds the consequence agreeable, he has no reason to change. The system and not individuals have to change. Men of God have tried far longer trying to convince people that pre marital sex is bad. Have people stopped having sex? In Nigeria right now, they are people that obey they law but see other people who blatantly abuse it get rewarded. What's their incentive to be law abiding citizens? Peoples attitude have to change, but it's wishful thinking to think they will change without a seismic change in the system