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by @JeSuisNaija:

 We will never have issues based national dialogue until the word ISSUE is properly contextualized. 

Drilling it down to what issues are, the issue is, like bacteria, we all shit in d system where we feed. Its safer to just continue cursing one another.

On daily basis, its likely 100 million out of 198million Nigerians only think of how to undermine d system, even where d system is working.

Politicians who embezzle funds didnt learn it at National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos.

The society! We trained them.

Nigerians, if we want to discuss issues, here are issues:

■ For example, majority at Alimosho, d largest voting block in Lagos dont pay for electricity. As their Senator, If u win 1st term by ignoring this scam, u'll lose 2nd term if u attempted changing it during your 1st term.

■ When we want Fx, we want it at official rate; but when we have dollars to change to Naira, Its to black market straight! When u are not mad. As hard as Fx was in 2015, Nigeria students enrolment in US grew from 9,494 to 10,674 in 2016, contributing $324Million to d US economy.

■ Tax is a very serious issue for discussion in US politics. When it came up that may have dodge tax, we quickly turned it into APC-PDP ping-pong. Everybody formed deafness when FIRS officially reported 6000 billionaires, and 800,000 companies have been evading tax.

If it ever happens that you question any person alleged to have evaded tax, who is a member of our religion, from our tribe, moves from an opposition party to the party we support, is our uncle, or knows your dad, you will hear reply like "shebi Buhari doesn't have WAEC." 

I have an employee that left his job because N1,200 payee was deducted from his N60,000 salary. Either poor or rich, most Nigerians hate any kind of talk about tax payments. Even people govt employed to enforce tax, dodge it too. They are d ones that will teach you how to do it.

If u are a tax consultant in Nigeria and u don't know how to prepare false statement of affairs, or management account, to file doctored annual returns, better go and learn and start UBER.

 I have lost major businesses because i demanded for remittance receipts on Witholding Tax.

I have data to show ~62% of companies that received payment for FG contracts between 1999 - 2011 didn't pay tax on payment received from FG, talk more of monies made, that government didnt know about.

Yet, we want infrastructure and we are surprised govt is borrowing to build it.

■ ASUU is on strike again. Apart from claims by TETFUND that each federal university has been receiving N1Billion every year for infrastructure development in d last few years, ask these academicians to provide properly audited accounts, you'll begin to hear cock & bull stories.

CBT Centers charge up to N6,500, but official JAMB fee is N4,000. If JAMB is remitting N7Bn on exams for 1.7million candidates, plz estimate how much universities make from Post UTME, Diplomas, Post Grad, and other internal revenue. These are d issues we dont want to talk about.

In a year, Ekiti University claimed it made N6Bn, but a federal institution in Lagos claimed it made less than N3Bn. Universities account abroad are made public. Ask OAU Ife to do same, you'll see ritual pot at d entrance of the Senate d next day. I dont know if TSA changed that.

If we open our universities for public scrutiny, a good number of ASUU members will be in jail.

■Apart from judges who collect bribe, lets look at court registries. Ikoyi Federal High Court Registry, is very notorious in this regard. I challenge lawyers here to prove otherwise.

RULE OF LAW is a good cliche when govt ask us to give account, but its OK for Melaye to dodge Court Summons.

■A lady told us, how she had a fight with another lady who was removing a full roll of toilet paper from the toilet at d new port Harcourt airport, for her personal use.

■ We claim our institutions aren't working, whereas we all wilfully sabotage them. Its not common again to find INEC conniving to rig elections, unlike the days of Maurice Iwu. While INEC evolved using card reader, we have evolved into buying & selling votes, to bypass it.

N10Billion has been removed from the federal budget for education to fund elections.

The biggest part of that election cost goes into securing ballot boxes from hijackers. 

We are a difficult people!