There is a concept in business performance management knows as " Kaizen". Kaizen was developed by the Japanese to facilitate more efficient production using " Leans Manufacturing"
Kaizen simply means "a drive to zero waste". Kaizen says waste is never accidental. It says waste is a direct result of design inefficiency and basically says the producer has intentionally or inadvertently designed his production process to encourage waste.
It is the Kaizen's view of waste that applies to corruption and iedficiency in the Nigeria state. Contrary to popular opinion, Nigeria's Corruption is not by " greed" or " bad behaviour".
It is by design. All economics, no matter how complex, is based on a loop that with human wants and ends with resources. Economic Activity is simply what people are compelled to do to appropriate resources to satisfy their wants. Governance system and strcture are uniquely placed to control what peolpe do to get resources to satisfy their wants.
This is the interesting part about what the Nigeria state has done with it's design in terms of an economic model. The system has never been whether people want resources to satisfy their wants- they do.
The question has always been" what does the system make people do to get those rwsorces?". Falsify and lnflate census figures, organize state government sponsored massweddings formorw children, invited illegal aliens for censuses, document under age children to vote peolpe do not do these things by accident.
They do them because the Nigerian state, by its design and reward system,has placed a premium on them and made them the best means to an end.
RPI.......................Mission Rekindled.
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