That’s the point I’ve been driving at all along. Nigeria has been painted go to be the worst of the worst but that’s not entirely the case here.
Something have to be made straight here, it’s not a comparison on Switzerland and Nigeria, no.
Then don't bring another country into a comparison. Simple! Stpp the whataboutism!
I had to go over the index you provided and it’s a good piece of material with detailed findings. Listing nations/territories in scores perceived as corrupt and less corrupted.
While the positioning of a nation might be just that, the scores highlighted the perception index of which, the research material as updated in 2022 in its index scores Nigeria 24 in respect to being perceived as corrupt while, Switzerland is well around 84 perceived as less corrupt (I’ll highlight again that this isn’t about comparison but, being a bone of contentment for a while, I just have to put it out). You could as well see some nations way below 10 for a score perceived as corrupted. I wouldn’t want to mention any country so we don’t get the idea of having a comparison but, you don’t find no one painting them like they are the worst people in the world.
Again you're missing the point!
It's perceived corruption! So the score is how the people in that country perceive their own country!
So the one labeling Nigeria as corrupt are...what surprise ..Nigerians!
We’ve got corruption problems and it continues to root itself deep in the fabrics of the nation but, there are changes being done as well. No one is actually speaking about it but it’s coming.
/remind me 2124.
Let's have a bet, 50 years from now the corruption will be the same and people will keep blaming neocolonialism for it!
You talk about me not blaming the WEST and Europe for the underdevelopment of Nigeria, yea, you're right, it's been years since independence but let me make it clear to you that there's difference between Political independence and economical independence. There's the political but in a cloak the economic independence is withheld and may of the African countries leader's that tries oppose that economic dependency automatically becomes an enemy of the WEST/Europe a clear example (which I expect you will refute) is Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi of Libya. What happened when he took the decision to cut economic ties with the WEST and gave unprecedented development both human and infrastructural development to his people, he was tagged a tyrant, a dictatorship, and how was his end? Today what is the current situation/condition of living standard in Libya compared to when he Gddafi was in leadership position, one that refused to be a stooge to the West.
Oh yeah, cheap talk. The west , colonialism all that bs.
Why has South Korea managed to do it? How has Japan managed to do it? How the hell are the former colonies in South America all doing better than you? How are the older colonies of all the other world world doing better?
Oh, Gaddafi I love how the worse the piss of shit a dictator is the easier if for him to trick people into believing he's some genius.
AGAIN, NUMBERS NOT CHEAP TALK:
This is the GDP per capita of Lybia and Romania from 1990 till the death of Gaddafi:
So once the oil boom was done for his genius really comes into play:
Libya had in 90's a GDP per capita of $6000, Romania nearly poorest and most corrupt country to enter the EU in 2007 had $1600, 4 times lower.
In 2011 Romania outpaced Libya, with no oil and no gas, and no Shithammar Shitdictror al Shithole al-Gaddafi!
Want the comparison with South Korea, a western ...stooge?
But be my guest, have more of those geniuses a leaders, this has worked so great till now, it will for sure do wonders in the next millennia of blaming everyone else but the actual people in that country!