FBI 77 and the Nigerian shame problem Nigeria Nigerians
On Sunday, while granting an interview with a television station, presidential media aide, Garba Shehu, remarked on the case of the 77 Nigerians recently indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States of America. He promised that Nigeria would extradite them if necessary, and that it was important their crimes do not tarnish the image of millions of other Nigerians everywhere doing legitimate business.
My thought then – and till now – is that we are a defeated people, and our psyche has been conditioned towards self-justification. The biggest frauds in the history of the USA – some of them running into billions of dollars – were committed by white men, but their race does not run errands of self-exoneration on social media. The 2008 global financial crisis happened because of the greed and predatory capitalism of some Americans.
I think part of the problem is that our race/continent/country has a sparse record of achievements in all human spheres. On those occasions when an individual among us cuts through the clutter of ordinariness and rises to eminence, we appropriate their success and make it a collective achievement. Those singular feats justify our existence and reassure us that we could have done better if our destined glory were not eclipsed by the corrupt leadership that plagues our nation.
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