If you ask anyone on the street what is Nigeria’s number one problem, he would most likely say corruption. The refrain on corruption is so profound that no one has taken time to ask why there is such abrasive corruption.
The reasons behind corruption are known but not addressed. They are totally downplayed. Truth is that corruption is merely an effect. The cause is ignored. Chasing the effect and leaving the cause, as in this case, is senseless. It is like pruning a tree, which would blossom once again after a short while. The only way to effectively kill a tree is to uproot it.
What are the issues at stake? Three factors are responsible for the resounding failure of Nigeria in virtually every aspects of human and economic development. In what follows I will highlight the factors and proffer the way out. For example, the population of Egypt in 1960 was 26 million. South Africa in 1960 was 17 million. These are the most populous countries in Africa. Coming to the West coast, Ghana’s population in 1960 was merely six million despite the fact that its economy was booming and attracted large migrant population because of its gold and cocoa. Cameroun’s population in 1960 was five million. The entire Niger Republic had a population of three million in 1960 while Chad had three million.
Consequently, what Nigeria has and operating with is politically manipulated population figures. The four censuses conducted in Nigeria in 1963 ; 1973 ; 1991 and 2006 were all doctored. All the figures being paraded as Nigeria’s projected population today ranging from 160 to 170 and even 200 million are guess work. All the projections made, including those by multilateral agencies like the World Bank, OPEC, UNDP and others are faulty because they are based on wrong population database.
According to him, poor census figures is what is stalling progress in Nigeria. How, one may ask? Fashola hinted that the administration has been planning since it assumed office.
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