The Nigerian Palava

Recalling a required text for my JS 2 literature class I couldn't help but bemoan the prolonged length of the Nigerian curse called Greed. "Bribery is a canker worm eating into the very fabric of our nation." A direct quote from the book, that I unfortunately cannot remember the title of (actually, the only thing I remember about the book is the quote), but interchange the word "bribery" for "Greed" and you have the Nigerian plague.

Understand this, well, it's my candid belief and I am extremely convinced of its accuracy, that every problem Nigeria faces today emanates directly or indirectly from greed.

A plane crashed just recently in Abuja.
It's all just so perplexing. You look at basic macroeconomics, you know, GDP, unemployment, consumption, investment...You look at basic microeconomics, you know, supply and demand...and you think to yourself, this is like "econ for dummies", surely Nigeria has skilled economists who can clearly tell that all they have to do is XYZ to bring the nation out of the dumps. So why does Nigeria never take such a step?
This same nonchalant attitude is what has led us to the third plane crash in the nation within a friggin' year! In a country where there are no typhoons or hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes...why the f* do we insist on destroying ourselves for a few under the table tips. I tell you that plane crash could have been avoided if someone wasn't greedy somewhere. Yep! It could have been the pilot, or the managers, or the owners, or the airport authorities, or the Nigerian aviation department, or the importer of the planes...who knows, but greed lies there somewhere.

They say the pilot was warned of weather conditions before he took off. Well, yeah! The weather made the plane crash two seconds after take-off! Right!

And so I lament the state of the Nigerian corporate demeanor. Seeing as we have all now become so accustomed to greed that we have come to expect it at every establishment and social situation, one can only hope that a divine intervention changes the tide before more people perish.

God let this be the last plane crash in Nigeria this year. Whatever lessons we ought to have learnt from this incident as a nation, do not permit to elude us. Biko, save us from this Nigerian Palava called greed. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.