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 Looking for a country whose Rulers are the only people with questionable educational qualifications? Find a country called Nigeria.

 In one particular company I suffered undue ethnic harassment because of employee advocacy. Two cases will suffice:- 1. I refused a sick staff who wanted to proceed on annual leave against the company policy which states that "no staff shall use his/her annual leave period for medical treatment. 2. I rejected the termination of a staff (cleaner) for closing an hour to closing time. I was accused of protecting someone from my state of origin. In both cases, the Managing Director who was a foreigner stood by me, however, these two cases eventually cost me a promotion to the post of Assistant Personnel Manager.

 A nation whose Rulers despise  education and health but with a huge appetite for foreign loans, what you get is Nigeria.

 I worked in this particular company's HR Division and being the youngest senior staff with the highest educational qualification and due to the quality of advises I gave, I was tagged (YTK) "You Too Know" When I advised that Union deductions from Senior Staff salaries who have not been mobilized by the staff association were illegal by the December, 1986 amendment to the Trade Union Avt, created an enmity between the Head of Division and yours truly which has remained till date. For the HOD, I made him appear stupid amongst the Committee of HODs haven  come from the Federal Ministry of Labour.

 When a nation is Ruled and not Led by greedy, selfish, blind and deaf politicians, what you get is Nigeria.

 Another challenge/problem I had which is related to Integrity is TRUTH. I have the capacity to handle the truth, so anybody telling me lies, I interprete as telling me I am stupid. Consequent upon this my attitude, I suffered a great deal in the hands of lie merchants who lack the capacity to differentiate between lies and the truth. In one organisation I worked, I was told point blank that in that place a majority of the employees do not want the truth, stating that I should play politics because politics is about half truth which I defined as lies. After these discussions, I was cross-posted out HR to another Division in the Conglomerate without lose of grade and remuneration.

 A nation where the deaf speak, the blind hear and the dumb see, cannot be better than the state of Nigeria.

 Integrity means doing what you say. For a majority of HR Practitioners in my clime call this Rigidity and for them, Practitioners must be flexible. For me, that is speaking from from both ends of their mouths. My challenge/problem is that when we reach an agreement, the other party cannot change it by fiat.  In a place I worked, we agreed a certain amount of money as out-of-station allowance for junior staff. The first set of junior staff who travelled with the Managing Director, he refused to pay claiming that they slept in his premises without feeding. My recommendation that they be paid 50% of the allowance was termed as organizing a trade union. The Managing Director decided consequently to disband the HR Department. What happens to Covenant breakers has happened to that company.

 Nigeria is doomed if our current selfish, careless and Carlos leaders who are also kleptomaniacs groom their children to takeover from them.