You're laughing so hard I can almost hear you, even while writing this. Because you know what every other citizen of this country knows. You know you have this defect, you are the typical Nigerian. See when a comedian makes a joke at the expense of his audience, they all laugh. They laugh because they think they are the exception. Each and everyone of them is thinking "oh he isn't talking about me, I don't do that. All these other 10,000 people do that though, but not me". This is only human nature. In the light of this, please know that this is directed at no one else but you. You the taxi driver, you the General manager, you the student and you the jobless person on the internet(if you're reading this you're not).
Take this scenario, to illustrate.You own the M&M company. (Those small sugar coated chocolate balls they market as candy, you know them). And in the line of production, a batch (lets say 250,000) have the M's misprinted and they read M&N's instead of M%M's. Now there's no way to correct this error short of melting them and starting over, and the chocolate company owners reading this would know that that line of action would set production hours back and cut profits by a size-able amount.
Would you?
a) remelt them and start from scratch.
b) continue with production.
Chances are you went for the second option(this applies only to Nigerians). Common logic dictates it. M&M's for crying out loud. These are the things you shovel into your mouth by the handful without thinking. It's not like anyone would calm down and inspect them before eating. Seriously they're so tiny, plus 75% of their customer base cannot read.(this is what happens when you market a product exclusively to toddlers.) What kind of wasteful human beings will flush hours of hard work down the drain? The owners of M&M's that.s who. I bet you with your Nigerian sense would never do that.
I easily derail from the point I'm making . Please bear with me. Where were we at again? You Sir are the embodiment of everything wrong with this country. And the cause. You're both the embodiment and the cause. We as a country have collectively blamed our leaders for too long, while sitting on our hands watching our boat slowly sink, like a junkie that knows he's being robbed but is too stoned to do anything about it. See if the leaders are bad, its because we are bad. You can't pick an apple out of a basket of rotten apples and say "oh how come is it that every time i pick an apple out of this basket it turns out to be rotten" and then drop it and pick another apple. Odds are the next apple will be rotten.You have to do something about the whole basket and stop dumbly picking apples. I'm not saying Nigeria is composed of entirely bad people. There's always black sheep in every organization(ironically the black sheep in this case would be the good sheep). So if my tirade has offended your ego please feel free to assume that you are one of the twenty or so good citizens of Nigeria. But remember that we can't all be the black sheep is what I'm saying.
We all are rulers, primarily of ourselves. If we can't make the next person adhere to a set of rules or behave in a certain way, at least we can to ourselves. Food for thought as we usher in a new era of leadership.
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