Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Your environment conditions you.

19 Jun 2026 · 2 min

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Femi Lazarus argues that Nigeria's broken infrastructure—unreliable power, bad roads, slow projects—conditions people to accept failure. He extends this to voting: long queues and theft at polling stations deliberately discourage good citizens, leaving power to a corrupt few. A flawed education system, distorted religion, and corrupt government together create a population that accepts injustice.

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When you see what is happening in Nigeria, there's conditioning. The fact that you know that light can go conditions you for imperfection. The fact that you know you should not drive too fast on a road because you can enter into a pothole conditions you that you don't deserve the best. The fact that a road can take 3 months and they do it for 5 years conditions you. So once you adjust to the conditioning, you pave way for future stealing. After all, we know it takes time. They do it well enough for you to adjust to the fact that what can happen now takes time. So it is not a failed system, it is working as planned. If you go to United Kingdom or On Election Day, you don't even know. Walk in and vote. The fact that you will queue under the sun and somebody will still steal the polling box is so that the good people can be discouraged from voting. Those who have good use of their time will not. Then those whose time is not producing have collected 5K will. It's a deliberate system. When a wrong education system Wrong religious system and the wrong governmental system come together, they produce slaves.
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