Evans, the real Nigerian

Those who know the system, are the ones who play the system and consequently beat the system. Infact they are victims of the system. 36-year old Chukwuduben Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, the kidnap kingpin who was recently arrested by men of the Nigerian Police is a true picture of what our society has become. He typifies everything wrong with our value system.
The likes of Evans have mastered how the system works. They know that the value system has been so eroded that people do not care how you make your money, they simply want to have a share, the reason why he was able to complete a mighty mansion in an estate like Magodo within a month unchallenged. They are products of a system that glorifies money and refuses to honor inteletualism and hardwork, where the criminally rich political elite are seen as role models. They see how the people often role out drums to welcome the very people that improverished them just for some Naira notes.
Such people succeeds in a system where the very institutions saddled with the responsibility to make and enforce the rule of law are the ones supervising curruption, where the Police service, even though not well structured have become agents of graft.
Had Evans not been caught, Maybe he would have run for governor at some point. Encouraged by his doll-outs, people would have voted for him. Even if eventually, his ugly past surfaced, and the EFCC arrested him and charged him accordingly, people would carry placards in his defence. According to a columnist, Tabia Princewill "a man who started out as a kidnapper would suddenly become blameless, a good Christian, etc., by virtue of joining politics and “sharing” money with a few loud mouths with the clout to defend him while he would have continued to hurt the masses. Evans could have embezzled his state’s budget, or been caught doing so and some people would still say “we are marginalised. We need Evans to get into power at the federal level”, forgetting that he (or those like him) are the true cause of marginalisation and poverty rather than ethnicity"
There will be many Evans in a system where people with questionable characters are the ones sitting on the front pews in our churches, getting titles in our mosques and chieftancy titles in their respective villages. They are friends to the media houses. Their pictures are on the front covers of many magazines, cooperate organizations may even invite them to deliver talks on the very problem they create.
There are many Evans out there, and in-fact there will be many as long as we refuse to reform our value system. The Quran counsels us in Q13:11-"Allah will not change the condition of a people, until they change that which is in their hearts"