12-10-2006, 11:57 PM
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Enid Blyton's 3 Gollywogs
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It is sickening just to read some of the responses to this report. Am I mistaken or is something very wrong with the heads of some of us. This is a serious serious REPROACH to us as a nation and as individuals. It not only smears us (NIGERIANS) but by extension the entire black race. Most foreigners can’t tell who is a Nigeria among a group of black people. One commentator (aiksmart)made some serious suggestions on how to curb this cancer and he gets such an irresponsible reply it is unbelievable!!!!!!! These 419 scams are huge setback for us as a nation; it may take more than a generation to correct. We have as a nation been labelled as thieves rogues, dupes, fraudsters etc etc and all we have to say is that only greedy people fall for the scheme!!!. Or we are getting back what they stole from us!!I marvel at the utter selfishness and stupidity of some of us; Selfishness because we seem to be thinking only in the short term and only about ourselves. And stupidity because we really don’t appreciate the immensity of the problem and the attendant consequence it has brought on us.
Some of us who have registered businesses here in Europe and who want to do honest business know how difficult it is do anything once they hear the word “Nigerian” it’s like a curse, just because of the action of a few (but growing business). Most operations in these developed countries are based on trust. Credits, guarantees, etc etc, that’s how the normal citizens and businesses operate. Nobody wants to extend credit or give guarantees to Nigerians and it makes ones operations much more expensive and then we get special scrutiny from all the supervisory bodies whew!! I don’t think we really realise what these people have gotten us into. Try walking into any chamber of commerce office in Europe and ask for intelligence reports of Nigeria or the cost index of doing business in Nigeria and you will understand what I mean. The result is that operating from or with any business in Nigeria becomes a nightmare before it starts. We as a nation are the losers as a lot of investment opportunities which should have come our way will go elsewhere.
This whole 419 issue is an offshoot of the corrupt culture which has reached alarming proportions in Nigeria. Whole subcultures of corruption have been developed and it will take the grace of God to reverse the trend. I was reading a tread here in NVS sometime back about fraud in medicare in Texas and one commentator stated that they should not bother with a particular fellow because he had used a lot of the fraudulently gotten money to develop his village at home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I assume this was an educated respondent saying this on NVS. This kind of mentality in itself is deeply troubling but the fact that the writer could even come out on NVS to say it makes me marvel. It shows the corrupting culture has gone very deep. We need some very very drastic measure back home and here to really reverse this trend otherwise one day we will wake up and nobody will want to have anything to do with us Nigerians and other poor Africans. The developed world have very little to gain from us as a continent
WE SHOULD WAKE UP AS BLACK PEOPLE, UNTIL WE GET OUR ACT TOGETHER AS NIGERIANS (THE MOST POPULOUS BLACK NATION), BLACKS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WILL STILL BE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WITH A REPROACH ON THERE HEADS
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Reproach on our heads !
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