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It is a very unfortunate development that in the last couple of weeks, our country have had to go through image problem occasioned by the few evil ones among us, especially those our young and upwardly mobile youths and middle age citizens in the Diaspora whose craze for indecent acquisition of wealth has portrayed us as a country on the moral and economic defensive.
The recent publication of the list if 77 Nigerians who are alleged to have pull through credit card and syndicated fraud that runs into billions of dollars is both scary and frightening. Scary because the impression being created is that Nigerian youths and other citizens in the Diaspora have no penchant for decent living but dubious ways to excel and engage in display of such wealth in lousy manners to the chagrin of the decent and hardworking.
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It has put to question what morals we really need to get all the nationalities is this country to go back to the basics and reinvent our lost values which I belief never encouraged craze for material wealth especially by the youths who are rather impatient in anything they do.
it is the same attitude that made parents and youths craze for getting Special Centres for WASC and UTME exams all in a bid to get certificate which has proved inadequate as a meal ticket.
The correction has to start at the family level. it is rather unfortunate that we bore the brunt of the devilish and perverted ones among us,but we can still do a rethink.To use the economy and lack of white collar job as a reason for craze for wealth is inappropriate since the amount t if money spent in procuring visas by this desperadoes is enough to start something reasonable.
We also need to re-orientate our youths to the fact that acquisition of degree is no longer a meal ticket but ingenuity in inward thinking and creativity backed with zeal to make a decent living will make a difference. The Bible is very explicit about the issue of hastily gotten wealth which disappears as they come.my late uncle of blessed memory in the mid 80’s use to counselled me to avoid…sudden wealth… “Owo agbara kii pe lowo o maa San lo ni” that is, quick wealth is likened to a flood which will flow away.
Let us do a re-think about the need to reorientate our youths to stop craze for indecent and inordinate wealth acquisition with it’s effects on our national psyche and image which has tarred individual Nigerians both at home ,intinerant travellers and those in the Diaspora with the evil brush.by Tunde Abatan
