I’ve seen many ask why Nigerian youths glorify yahoo & Hushpuppi. Here is Orji Uzor Kalu returning to Senate as Chief whip after just 6mnths in prison for 7.2bn fraud. Nigeria glorifies fraud. Youths see Politics as elite version & yahoo as street version.
We have industries allegedly financed by suspicious funds, eg music, real estate, car sales, etc. In a country where over 90m live in poverty, Youths see poverty all around, & the few wealth that they see are mostly from fraud. The state leaves little else for youths to admire.
Even the police promotes fraud. It’s easy to sit in the comfort of our privileged homes behind iPhone 11s and castigate youths, but for as long as we do not as a society provide more legitimate young success stories for them to model after, glorification of fraud will continue.
The state must continuously show by actions that we shun fraud. We must create opportunities for more youths to make it than they do from fraud. We must walk the talk, not to condemn fraud on TV while raising the flag of fraud after.
The system is broken. We must fix it. End.
The system is broken. We must fix it. End.
