timi

This is the dumbest take I’ve heard all year. And it’s been a crazy year 🤯 Let me dismantle this argument using the same analogy, with one correction. A family earns 50k (But instead of 5k going missing, 40k disappears - a much closer illustration of reality). You’re poor. Yes! But poverty is your condition. Corruption is the biggest problem keeping you trapped in poverty. That missing 40k is the money meant to fund education, skill acquisition, productive assets, building a business or creating opportunities that would actually help you earn more and escape poverty. But instead, you’re left with 10k and somehow being told by this lad that your biggest problem is that you don’t earn enough. Even if you believe him and your income rises to 500k tomorrow, is it not 400k that will still disappear ? Even scripture recognises that “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much” (Luke 16:10) Now. Revenue doesn’t fall from heaven. It comes from productivity, investment and value creation, all of which depend on the very resources that corruption is stealing. And even if you miraculously generate more revenue, there’s no amount of money that can save you from institutionalized corruption. We’ve seen people inherit enormous wealth and end up bankrupt because they couldn’t manage what was already in their hands. If you cannot account for what you already have, earning more simply gives you more to squander. I genuinely hope Seun challenged this, because I cannot imagine allowing someone to spew such nonsense with this level of confidence.