Reasons for corruption in nigeria

Nigerian people are corrupt simply because an individual doesn't earn sufficient money to satisfy his/her needs.An individual earns a basic salary but this salary they earn is insufficient to satisfy their needs due the lack of basic infrastructure such as electricity, pipe borne water, inadequate mass urban transportation and so on and so forth.

A person has to pay for so may things that are meant to be provided free by the government such as money to buy a generator,money to dig your own borehole since the government does practically nothing when it comes to providing all these things. People are thereby forced to loot whatever they can form their various places of work, and i'm referring to not only politicians but Nigerians. 

People are forced to embezzle because they also need to pay their own personal needs lets take for example transportation, holders of public offices e.g (member of parliament) don't use the yellow rickety public buses because of the buses are in a dilapidated state and unsafe to board they make use of taxi's and personal drivers which are all expensive for an average Nigerian to afford.

In countries like the united kingdom politicians live their lives like every normal citizen because they are serving the people(public servants) they take public transport like buses and trains they don't hire drivers for themselves because of the efficiency of their economy.Take a look at the pictures below and tell me the difference.

Nigerian Rickety bus

                               London red bus

Now the pictures above show a Lagos public transportation bus a.k.a danfo  and a double-decker bus in London.Now you can see why people don't enter these yellow buses.

All these has brought about inequality and high dependence on people who are well off in the country.The leaders in other countries earn their salaries which is sufficient for them because their government provide what they are supposed to provide unlike Nigeria.

The prime minister of the united kingdom earns £250,000 a year as salary while politicians in nigeria loot more than this amount in a month. If nigeria can be fixed there will be no need for corruption in nigeria, take a look at tony blair the former prime minister of the united kingdom, he has made a fortune since leaving the prime ministerial seat which is over £16,000,000 (3,697,835,127.34 NGN) and still earning and now has a property portfolio of several houses in england.

                                           Tony Blair's Buckinghamshire house