The quest to get riches in a hurry, covetousness,
\ninsatiable\u00a0 affection for mammons, power\u00a0 tussle and social vices have caught up with many adult citizens of Nigeria.
\nThe topmost on the factors responsible\u00a0 for this\u00a0 problem is corrupt leadership. Both civil and military leadership are corrupt. Some past and present leaders who\u00a0 couldn\u2019t afford\u00a0 personal cars can after some months\u00a0 in office boast of very huge bank accounts within and outside the country and at the same time use the EFCC to\u00a0 apprehend whoever they suspect to have accumulated wealth in\u00a0 the same ways and manner they have done.
\nBesides, lack of adequate security is also responsible for the inordinate affection for riches among Nigerians in Nigeria there is no security for every body, the physically challenged persons inclusive. The only option left is the rat race in which riches\u00a0 are acquired though fraudulent\u00a0 ways and methods.
\nThe powers that be have no pity for anybody, the so called credible leaders only provide\u00a0 epileptic power supply for which the populace pay\u00a0 without any discount and so many citizens indulge in illegal oil bunkery, political thuggery, prostitution just to make ends meet.
\nOther consequences of this lust for riches are inimical to the social wellbeing of our country, for instance, it has led to involvement in cultism the easiest way of death for\u00a0 the future\u00a0 leaders of this nation.
\nTo be gentlemanly in Nigeria nowadays\u00a0 is to become a fool, what is used as yardstick for popularity\u00a0 among the\u00a0 educated illiterates is frivolous\u00a0 donations to lure into mischief youths during election, rather than scholarship awards, creation of job etc to cushion the economic hardship they face.
\nAnother area of indulgence\u00a0 include peddling of\u00a0 hard drugs, lottery, betting and pools taking, an avarice to reap where one did not\u00a0 sow.
\nThese and many more must be curtailed. Government and religious organisations must orientate\u00a0 their members against the love of money which is the root of\u00a0 all evil.
\nGovernment and religious leaders should be exemplary. They must dissociate\u00a0 from the hidden things of\u00a0 dishonesty.
\nMoney laundering and ill-gotten wealth should\u00a0 be\u00a0 well probed. Any rich individual should be able to account for his riches.
\nThere should be adequate security for all categories of people in our country as obtained\u00a0 in advanced countries of the world,\u00a0 security for old, young , school children and what have you.
\nAll hands must be on deck for us to succeed against the battle of materialism
\nThe fear of God and hardwork must be encouraged above all.
\nThe giving and taking of bribe is no longer regarded as heinous\u00a0 crime now adays. In order to\u00a0 make so much money, people invent dubious means even in the educational sector, where teachers impersonate, arrange for so-called special centres for candidates to pay huge amount of money to be allowed\u00a0 who cheat during the process.
\nNo matter the rationalization of this criminal offence, it remains vicious essentially.
\nPeople have evolved new ways of stealing in order to acquire wealth,\u00a0 people obtain by tricks even\u00a0 through mobile\u00a0 phones, account of both government and non-governmental organisations are falsified by those\u00a0 who rob by the pen.
\nValuable\u00a0 commodities such as land are no longer distributed evenly\u00a0 and equally among rightful owners, wrong owners and or one or two persons among many owners, usually mastermind a gross or grand conspiracy against the others so as to obtain everything that comes out\u00a0 of the possession.
\nBecause of money, people no longer give seriousness to the dignity of labour, morals and societal values. Nigerians forsake the law, praise the wicked and herald the dubious means the wicked make their money.
\nToday our society has no regard for values, ethical conduct and integrity as the end justifies the means what matters is that,\u00a0 \u201cthats our man or woman\u201d, he or she\u00a0 must be\u00a0 lobbied into political offices,\u00a0 conferred\u00a0 with a chieftaincy title\u00a0 and what have you.
\nThe messages\u00a0 preached from many pulpits of new generation churches have further compounded the inordinate quest for wealth.
\nWhat we hear now, is \u201cwherever place the sole of your feet shall tread upon has been given to you as an inheritance and that Niger Delta which\u00a0 you tread upon is your own inheritance, believe it and shout Hallelujah\u201d.
\nNo more \u201choliness without which no man shall see the Lord\u2019 reflective messages.
\nMessages on prosperity and praises are overemphasized at the expense of Hebrew\u00a0 12:14.
\nIt is high time Nigerians were made to understand that life is not all about materialism, because a man\u2019s life consists not in the abundance of riches which he possesses. People need to be reminded that it is foolishness and an evil disease on the part of any person who acquires\u00a0 and accumulates wealth, he\/she\u00a0 cannot exhaust and consume within the limited lifespan, he\/she\u00a0 has to spend on this planet earth.
\nFurthermore, man in general has nothing to give in exchange\u00a0 of his own soul\u00a0 when it\u00a0 shall be entangled in hell by the evil ways\u00a0 he acquired his wealth.<\/p>\n
Derefaka is an intern with The Tide.<\/p>\n
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Tamunoseimiebi Derefaka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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