Prof Adoyi Onoja: COVID-19 and ‘follow the money’ theory of security
There are two reasons people steal – Need and/or Greed. They steal to secure their lives; this is borne out of need. They steal because the opportunities to steal exist and/or because everyone with the opportunity is stealing; this is borne out of greed. People steal because governance and government is insensitive, inadequate or failing to provide and create opportunity for them through growing the economy.
Please look no further for the reason those who can steal. They steal money for their security or well-being. Examine every act of stealing in the public sector of Nigeria and the conclusion is that those that steal money do so to secure their lives and those of their families. They steal because there is no today and no tomorrow for them.
In the last twenty years, the scale of deprivation has been increasing. In the last five years, deprivation heightened exponentially consolidating the country’s designation as the poverty capital of the world. Correspondingly, the quest for well-being or security amongst all and sundry particularly the elite with the means has taken on the character of warfare with different battlefields.
Even the so-called de-facto security or the Military, Intelligence and Law Enforcement are in hot pursuit of money, money that guarantees wellbeing or security, the raison de’tre for the men and women that enlisted into the services. The latest example where the MILE set up shop, in the pursuit of wellbeing or security, is the border of Nasarawa state and the Federal Capital Territory . This is the town of Nyanya.
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