I have heard the argument that the reason Nigerians are difficult and ungovernable is because they live under harsh conditions. In Rwanda Value Added Tax is 18%, PAYE is 30%, rent is between $200 - $300 per month, for a modest three-bedroom house, a sim card (MTN or Rwanda Cell) is 1,000 FRW (N250). But the people obey the law and every evening they troop out to the many bars and restaurants in Kigali to enjoy their Mutzig (tastes like Star) or Primus (tastes like Gulder) Beer. Rwanda is something of a police state. The government does not tolerate corruption, there is a National Office of the Ombudsman which protects national integrity; misdemeanours are harshly punished, and the Tax Office, the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), is super-efficient. Every Rwandese pays tax, and each one of them has a National Identity Card. Nigerians don't like to pay tax. The country's National Identity Card Scheme is the biggest scam of the decade.
Thank God for the voice of reason. The above quotes are some of the problems facing Nigeria today.
Nigerians love to have almost everything for nothing. Majority are good at
exploiting every loopholes in the book for their selfish purposes. And yet we expects 'manna to fall from heaven' to solve our various problems. The bible says: 'Shall we continue in sin and expect the grace of God to abound? God forbid!'
When Buhari Idiagbon's administration introduced War Against Indiscipline, WAI, to sanitize our deteriorating collective attitudes in the 80s, some people (like the devil incarnate General Ibrahim Babangida, and others like the late Chief Moshood Abiola and co), sabotaged their good intentions with their USELESS coup, and the result today is C-H-A-O-S.
Nigerians lacked DISCIPLINE, period!!
Almost everybody is guilty of one scam or the other; be it forgery, tax evasion,
Bribery & Corruption (i.e. our National I.D. anyway), and dishonest behaviours; especially some of our politicians who have got no regard for the laws of the country in their day to day living.
Bring back WAI and everybody will sit up. Chikena!!