Good Canadian citizen. Stole billions of naira from pensioners because of Nigerian lawlessness.

Nellie Mayashak worked in Canada as a civil servant for many years and never been accused of any wrong doing. She became the Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Department (PTAD) but got suspended for allegations of massive embezzlement.

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A Nigerian-Canadian civil servant, Nellie Mayshak, has spent many years working for the government of Ontario. Not a single day was she accused of misappropriation or embezzlement of fund and corruption. Not one accusation

Immediately she had the opportunity to come back home to work in Nigeria she steals from Nigerian pensioners large amounts of money that run into billions of Naira, that would have crippled the economy of Ontario had she stolen a fraction of such amounts while she was there.

Let us forget the monumental disgrace she represents for Nigerians in the diaspora and Nigerians in Canada. Her case is instructive for only one reason. Obviously, Nellie Mayshak was already a thief when working in Toronto, but she could not Steal.

Question is : why did she not steal in Canada?

Answer: the fear of consequences and the absence of impunity.

Canada did not work for her. Why continue to work honestly in Canada and watch your pay-check go up in smoke every month, eaten up by Federal and provincial taxes when you come originally from a society that has agreed to function on a paradigm of crime without punishment and impunity?

For any Nigerian with criminal proclivities living and working in the Western world, that is the proposition that Nigeria constantly fixes in your consciousness: come back home and join our commonwealth of crime without punishment. Come back home and become an instant billionaire. Here, we do not ask questions about how you made your money.

That Nellie did not steal in Ontario and went home to steal billions is another reason why we must rethink Nigeria radically. We cannot have a situation where you fear crime and consequence in Canada, America, and Britain and relocate to the Nigerian den of criminality and reward.

That she has been suspended is a good start. Lets hope for a fair judicial process that will be pursued to its logical conclusion.

However, prosecuting and jailing this Nigerian-Canadian criminal is not enough. And many of us think that the solution to our problem of lawlessness, impunity, and crime without punishment lies in visionary leadership and strong institutions. Those are significant planks of the solutions but they are hollow and ineffective without some form of social revolution and evolution which involves the forging of a collective attitude of hostility to the kind of society that we currently operate.

Until her monumental stealing as a civil servant was exposed, Nellie, like Dino, FFK, and politicians of all parties, will obviously be living above her means amongst us. Yet we see her cars and mansions everyday and everywhere. She may also has a front row seat in her church, with special access to the Pastor. Yet, when she is invited to social functions and, if she arrived five hours late, we stop proceedings to “recognise her presence”. Yet, we nominated her for every manner of society award. Yet, she is always at the high table at every event.

Let Dasuki, Metuh, Oronsaye or any member of the 2015-2016 class of theft and corruption indictees appear at any social function in Nigeria today, we stop proceedings to “recognize their presence.” How can we run a jungle society like this and expect those with criminal proclivities among us in the Diaspora not to run home to steal from us and add to our problems?

A country Where thieves feel valued and recognized in the context of societal mores and mentality, no level of leadership or institutional enhancement will work with this kind of mindset

We have to have a collective vision of the social good and develop attitudes of collective hostility to any citizen who does anything injurious to the society. Such an attitude is the raw material that leadership and institutions could use.

The day we develop the courage to stop recognizing the presence of known thieves in our public and social ceremonies, we would have started our long journey to genuine civilization!

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