Mrs Farida Waziri, the new boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was absolutely right when she told a visiting delegation of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) led by Olisa Agbakoba, NBA President that here in Nigeria too many persons in public office are mentally ill, and that to sanitise the Nigerian public space, aspiring public office holders should be subjected to psychiatric tests. "According to her" The Guardian reports, "Most of the negative character traits exhibited by public officers in the country, especially massive looting of the treasury, are symptoms of mental illness."

She even tried to identify these negative traits: the theft of public funds, primitive accumulation, and greed. "You know if you are stealing what you need, it is a different thing but if you are grabbing left, right and centre throughout, then your character should be called to question. This, she said, is necessary in order to help many Nigerians who cannot even raise a voice against some of these practices. They cannot feed three square meals while those who occupy public offices through elections, return to their villages, demolish their shanties and replace them with paradise with no regard for their neighbours who cannot feed. This is merciless". Thank you, Mrs Waziri.

redsun:

IQ test should be mandatory.People that doesn't even know what intelligence stands for runs the affairs of men,it's like entrusting a nutty child with great and enormous responsibilities.

oldie:

To put it simply,
Most of our public office holders and public affairs commentators
are mentally and morally corrupt !
I do agree with her

@ vigasimple , and God/god or satan or whatever has got nothing to do with this

vigasimple:

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I repeat we need extra special grace of God to break this cycle we have been nearly 50 years we have been since independence.

Satan is already helping us to continue in a sloppery slip we have been and withouth the extra special grace of God all argument and 'mouth revolution' we yab on Nairaland will not change anything. If anything experience has taught us that it only get worse.

Even among the majority of people on this site, given the opportunity they are propably going to be worse than our current leaders.

If you want us to continue the way we are , then don't worry satan is already doing it for you.

If on the other hand you want a radical change let us continue to work hard at finding a solution and at the same time ask for the special grace of God to take us to another level.

You cannot have mediocres and expect success.