Recently Tv "megastar" Oprah Winfrey(left) is credited as saying that all nigerians are corrupt no matter their level of education.
She went far as saying that America should sever diplomatic relationships with the world's topmost corrupt countries among which Nigeria is number one according to her("Transparency International").
It is very pathetic that Oprah could ascribe to a larger population, the evil act of an insignificant number of persons in the world’s most populous black nation.Oprah’s conclusion is based on the fact that a Nigerian was caught with $500,000, which was alleged to have been stolen from a foreigner through the Internet fraud popularly known as 419.
Oprah had sponsored an hour-long programme, which ran for several days on the CNN, with the sole aim of exposing the clever tricks espoused by this group of Nigerians to con their victims.I don't know why America and Americans are regarded as Sacred Cows because Americans are committing heinous crimes against children and women, nobody has tagged all Americans or America as murderous.So, why should Oprah call all Nigerians rogues because of the sin of a few bad eggs?Oprah regularly tells her life story: how she was sexually abused by close relations, how she ‘walked the streets’ (Americans’ euphemism for prostitution), etc., but nobody has ever deemed it fit to tag all American men as incestuous because of Oprah and others’ experiences.She did drugs – just like the typical American teenager, but nobody has cast all American youths in the mould of drug abusers!So, why should an individual that is supposed to know better sentence a nation to odium for the infraction of a tiny fraction of its population?
Is she clean enough to call Nigerians rogues?
It's possible she is not comfortable with the fact that a Nigerian(Dangote) is richer than her.
Oprah should review her sense of judgment.
If she is the type that uses action of few to judge many she should call Nigerians geniuses since Philip Emeagwali (Nigerian) is regarded as a genius for his inventions in the computer world and geology.
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Ms or Mrs Oprah Winfrey who is world aclaimed for her ways of altering the facts on her TV shows is obviously not a credible judge or witness to any person other than her own self..., and this only stems from the fact that she had a very very terrible and abnormal upbringing- Tonye Dudiefa (Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria)
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