Any new visitor to [Nigeria] is bound to notice the odd phenomenon that literally thousands of houses and buildings in cities and towns bear the message "THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE," painted prominently near the front door. Ask any Nigerian the purpose of the message and they will quickly tell you that it is to prevent 419 [scamming]. Apparently, one popular method of 419 is to assume the identity of a real estate agent or simply a property owner trying to sell one’s house. In Nigeria’s cities and towns, where the real estate market is tight, buyers can be induced to make down payments to secure a later purchase, and in some cases entire transactions have been completed before the buyer discovered that the deal was a scam.
That is from Daniel Jordan Smith’s informative and entertaining A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria. Here is the book’s home page.
All of the serious environmental ills that we now confront are exacerbated by the increasing population of our species. Our increasing numbers will, if left unchecked, result in the mass extinction of other species with which we share the planet, and whose complicated web of interactions provide the services we need to live comfortably. With the population at close to six and half billion
and on its way to nine or ten, to assert that births should be subsidized is hard to understand.
To me talking of corruption as part of a culture indicates a fatality and a belief that that corruption will always prevail and there isn’t much we can do.
http://bayesianheresy.blogspot.com/2007/01/condemned-to-corruption-for-all.html
-MJ
You’re right tmex12 that in this case we can talk about a violation of property rights but also of human rights.It is scandalous what is happening there and the Government should take measures of the situation.Hannah Jones buying homeowners insurance
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