It is a very overwhelming and welcomed development in Nigeria that religion is now playing insignificant or no role in the national political system. That a time has come when Nigerians have lost grip of being manipulated by religious bigots and political soothsayers is an indication that the country is now marching towards the right direction. Once the electoral system is corrected and the people choose their leaders by themselves, Nigeria will become what all its patriots desire for it.
We need appropriate public policies. No doubt about it? They cushion or eliminate many of the challenges that we face. With many of such across the public sector decision-making terrain, many of our challenges as a country will inevitably be resolved. However, beside the fundamental issues pertaining to the adequacy and appropriateness of policy components and processes, concerns have revolved around the determination of the actual point where chances of unriddling the identified chain of Nigeria's problems are frustrated.
It is not of any good cheer or image, no matter how Nigeria has fallen, for the people of Delta State of Nigeria to constantly have one of their leaders and former governor of the state, always associated with fraud. If it is not about impersonation, it is about stealing of state funds, or money laundering, or being an ex-convict, or conspiracy to defraud, or credit card fraud, or jumping bail etc. The amounts being quoted from the UK and Nigeria are disturbing: $200 billion, $290 million, $85 million etc.
Apart from the victims whose names where wrongly or mischievously added to the list of Halliburton TSKJ Scandal, Nigerians are victims of the damaging campaigns that affect the reputation of the great African nation and its citizens abroad.
Naturally, it would have drawn more attention and sympathy if the Nigeria women and especially the politicians among them blew their trumpet and made this complaint by themselves. But the situation is so tensed-up that the womanliness in them manifests. Since the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on Wednesday 5th May, 2010, and the eventual crowning of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the President and Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces, there has been serious lobbying by politicians and non-politicians to deputize him.
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