Thread by @DrOlusesan

PROSPERNG BY BEING POOR
The poverty on twitter doesn't make people steal rice and goat. It makes them kidnap for millions of naira ransome, dupe individuals and steal money from govt coffers to pay for luxury and buy treasury bills. Anything below this is spreading poverty.

This narrative swells anytime there's a move to curb the consumptive luxury of a naruon that produces nothing, by people who wants to enjoy what they cant produce, cant afford, with the money they didnt work for. Even poor people dont use poverty as excuse d way we do on twitter.

While we circumnavigate immorality and crime with "poverty" as an excuse for abhorrent behaviours online, this argument holds true, until you're robbed, kidnapped or duped.
The good thing is, the real poor people still flog their children who steal meat from the pot, like rogues.

We now have a huge human resources of thieves and their sympathizers. A reason why Naira Marley declared with boldness, we are all thieves or dishonest in a way. We are not all thieves; social media made it so as soon as songs about cashing-out became an acceptable entertainment.

Sympathy for criminals is growing because those who dont have courage to kidnap, do online fraud, embezzle public funds, do ritual or harvest organs are hoping those who have courage to do it will cut soap for them. We want thieves who are our friends and relatives to succeed.

Legitimacy to flaunt money we didnt work for, gave birth to debates about what you have become at 23. While there are admissible exception, surveys showed people barely have the picture of their lives properly formed at below 30. Yahoo-boys and their babes are a different sample.

You need to know the number of people in Nigeria begging relatives and friends abroad to help them pay with their cards, for online transactions. A lady at 23 got a loan to start importing interior decor items from Turkey. Jaja's friends who don't like poverty swindled her.

Her lenders siezed her car and everything she has, she went into hiding when SFIU went after her; her parents were arrested to bait her out. Her life is at ground zero. But twitter wants you to believe this happened to her because govt didn't provide electricity. Eti ya werey! 😃

PayPal scrutinize us. Debit Cards are rejected for online shopping. Airlines wont allow us pay for tickets through Internet. We all want to leave for other countries after collectively burying probity.
When spiritual leaders too failed in their ministry, they joined "we muvee!"

Its a separate level of fraud that religious bodies failed woefully at reforming individuals, spiritually & physically, at family levels, then blame govt for insecurity. They failed at doing deliverance for thieves in their churches, then started going about with police escorts.

Pastor Paul's Option B has context and is a valid advise, assuming his audience is limited to the congregation he has responsibility for. The message couldn't have being for people who have travelled abroad and are still committing fraud. Everyday, FBI keeps publishing our names.

Geographical location dont change thieves and it has no influence on lack of character. Nigeria as a nationality has a competitive number of people in prisons, in China, South Africa, US, France, Italy, Qatar, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. What happened to using their Option B rightly?

As it becomes rare everyday to find a honest Nigerian, kidnappers, armed robbers, Internet fraudsters, ritualist, rapists, exploitative banks, wicked employers are increasing. Bad governance is a contributory factor; an exploding population of dishonest citizens is a root cause!

*nation