Most Nigerians, especially the well-meaning ones are constantly evolving in thoughts and consistently seeking for answers to every anomaly that has been on for decades.
It’s proven that the poverty in Nigeria 🇳🇬 is actually artificial.
You’d remember the fake products scandal news ongoing for a while in Nigeria?
These fake products prove one thing about Nigerians.
Under the “right conditions” we’re capable of producing and not just consuming.
In a more functional society, those who produce fake clothes could have been designers, those who produce fake drugs could have been pharmacists,
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Those who produce fake drinks could have been wine makers, juice makers etc,
These are all talents that the corruption in Nigeria have rendered useless, what this show is Nigerians are not lazy and they want to be productive especially where they are guaranteed they can feed their families from it.
Many people with ordinary eyes couldn’t see the relation between government corruption and all these fake products, society must feed, they must survive, if the head is rotten, be rest assure that the whole system will be a mess.”
@davidHundeyin wrote :
The obvious implication is that lack of production in Nigeria is a deliberate state policy fronted by a political elite that wants the public to remain poor indefinitely.
There is nothing Nigerians cannot produce. Our poverty is artificial and deliberate.
Case in point: Nigeria had a well documented land trade surplus across its southern borders, primarily consisting of consumer goods produced in Nigeria.
Buhari then closed the borders for 17 months and destroyed the trade surplus. It has never recovered.
Everyone is poorer now.
2nd case in point:
Deliberate destruction of productive potential using punitive licence and tax policy to make legitimate business impossible, leaving only illegitimate business (crime) and non-production (poverty) as the available options.