Many Nigerians go into politics or the public service not because they desire to see a better Nigeria in their lifetime or they truly and sincerely want to contribute their own personal inputs into the national development of the Nigerian nation. Public offices are the easiest avenues today in Nigeria for the rogue and the heavily corrupt politicians to primarily and quickly enrich themselves from the government coffers that they control at the expense of the nation.
The corrupt self-enrichment in the position of leadership remains the number one priority for public service in Nigeria today. That is the reason why 30% of the federal budget is used directly for the payment of the high salaries and the hefty allowances for the 17,500 current political office holders or about 0.01% of the Nigerian population today at all levels (local, state and federal). That is also the same reason why our federal senators are paid $94,000 a month, the House members earn $75,000 a month and the nation's national minimum wage is only $110 per month for most of the millions of the Nigerian workers.
Political appointments and public elected offices in any true working democracy that is based on the supremacy of the rule of law and order are the powerful and the influential positions where major policies that will shape the destinies of their citizens, communities, local governments, state governments and the entire nation are debated, taken and implemented. The right avenues for true money making and huge financial opportunities in any working democracy where the rule of law prevails are in the private sector of that nation's economy and never in the public service or in the government positions.
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