Evil is defined in Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary as causing harm, discomfort, marked by misfortune, wickedness; something that brings sorrow, distress, or calamity; and the fact of suffering misfortune, and wrong doing amongst others.

When men or women love money they engage in acts that cause harm, discomfort and misfortune to others, they exhibit wickedness and engage in actions that bring sorrow, distress and calamity to everyone but themselves and their loved ones, and they inflict misfortune and wrong doings on others.

An environment saturated with evil, wickedness, misfortune, discomfort, calamity, sorrow, distress, harm, is also saturated with people who love money and since there is never enough money to satisfy the greed in everyone then the perpetuation of evil also has to be intensified by the vilest of them.

When the Sosoliso plane crashed while trying to land at Port Harcourt International Airport due to the poor state of equipment at the airport and which resulted in the death of all but one passenger, including over 60 students of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja the love of money was at play.

When daily incidents of death are recorded while many others are maimed or hospitalized due to motor and truck accidents on highways across Nigeria that are traced to the deplorable state of roads for which moneys have been budgeted and allocated then the love of money is at play.

When Nigeria has one of the highest infant and mother mortality rates in the world due to inadequate medical care and health facilities and thousands more die from preventable or treatable ailments notwithstanding billions of Naira budgeted yearly for health care then the love of money is at play.

When thousands of Nigerians die yearly from generator fumes or fires resulting from generator use, and the manufacturing sector lies comatose and the economy prostrate due to epileptic power supply while billions of US Dollars have been expended to generate a meagerly 3, 600 Megawatts then the love of money is at play.

When a country is the seventh largest producer of oil in the world and has four refineries that never seem to work, and has to import large quantities of refined petroleum products from abroad, but its citizens are still experiencing acute shortage of petroleum products, then the love of money is at play.

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When yearly trillions of Naira are budgeted and expended by Ministries, Departments and Agencies at the three tiers of government and the quality of existence of Nigerians keeps receding towards Stone Age standards then the love of money is at play.

When the president of a nation travels overseas for medical reasons and does not officially hand over to his deputy as provided by law to allow for transmission of power, and in the process subjects a nation of 140 million people to a leadership vacuum that has entered into its third month then the love of money is at play.

When the wife, family, and close friends of a man who is suffering from kidney and heart conditions that has kept the man bed ridden and in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital, but they are only interested in the man hanging on to life because he is the president of a nation and not minding the distress, discomfort, suffering, and pain he is undergoing then most definitely the love of money is at play.

When the chief custodian of the laws of a nation is employing every means at his disposal to justify the breach of the constitution he is supposed to uphold including the federal court that has churned out three judgments to uphold the leadership vacuum in that nation then most assuredly and definitely the love of money is at play.

So we can see that the overflow of evil in the high places of Nigeria is a reflection of the preponderance of lovers of money in Nigeria, and that what these perpetrators of evil in the high places are doing is revealing to us the state of our own hearts that have become cancerous and blighted with a disease known as the love of money.

To accelerate the removing of specks in the eyes of others (perpetrators of evil in the high places) we must all first remove the logs (love of money) in our respective eyes so that we can weed out the evil that now abounds in Aso Rock.

 Mahatma Gandhi



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