What is this world turning into? Religious leaders that should be epitome of piety are the perpetrators of evil or the prayer partners of thugs, thieves and so on. For how do we explain the fact that indicted well-known corporate executives and bank CEOs found guilty of fraud are core financiers of our churches to such an extent that some have estates in their names on popular prayer and camp grounds. Some imams/alfas are the fortress of some fraudsters (419s) who dupe Nigerians. Shouldn’t religious organisations and leaders take time to investigate the source of the wealth of their members before they accept gifts from them?
Though it was said that the Bombardier 10-seater jet given to pastor Ayo Oritshejafor was donated by member of his church, but what will the CAN president do supposing the real donors of the jet , one way or the other, are also the financiers of Boko Haram? And that the gift is the blood money to expiate for the thousands of innocent christians killed by the sect.
Why have human resources turned to a curse in Nigeria?
Why does it seem that each profession is super saturated? Why does it seem that Africa, Nigeria in particular, is over populated and that it has very scarce/limited resources?
In those good old days, a man with many children was a proud father because he had more hands to work on his farm which translated to more wealth, fame and prestige. This is the reason national economy (and industry) experts have said that human capital is the most important resource for development in any society – China has continued to prove that this is true in no small way, and as a result the country has set itself as a global economic rival to the United States.
Again, the US continue its DV Lottery scheme, amongst other strategies, to encourage and facilitate immigration into its domain, thus blowing up its population despite the current high level of unemployment in the country – why? This is because they value the human capital resource. They know that to solve socio-economic problems and create wealth, manpower is needed.
Here in Africa however, the human resource is never developed. We’ve been brainwashed to believe ‘more people, more troubles necessarily’. We have also been taught to believe going to school to obtain a paper certificate is the all in all; and most parents pay through their nose to ensure their children attend the ‘best schools’ at the expense of talent, craft and handiwork. (Also moral training and family ties, in a way, have had to suffer because of this trend.) This partly explains why there are more graduates and less vacancies – no wonder Dangote Group (Lagos) required only 100 graduate trainee tanker drivers but got 13,000 applications out of which six are PhD holders and over 700 were ‘Masters graduates’!
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