During the Morning Drive programme of Edo Broadcasting Service, Benin on January 8, 2026 a statement was made by Mathew Ajakaiye a crew member.

His words: "if trending Anthony Joshua was raised in Sagamu his home town he wouldn't nave been a boxer and become a heavyweight champion of the world. The system we operate in Nigeria would have not allowed him to grow into a great boxer."

Mathew Ajakaiye spoke well indeed, there is an obtuse system we operate in the country emitting negative, dysfunctional energy that
critically influences the conduct of government, public officials as well as private individuals.

A close look shows our characteristic Nigerian conduct at work in the accident experience of Anthony Joshua. To start with, in Nigeria typically we don't value our human, material, financial, spiritual, intellectual and moral assets. It is all because we behave like spoilt children with a demonic attitude of unnecessarily wasting resources.

That is why in just six hours between Lagos and Sagamu Anthony Joshua lost two of his close friends, Sina Gbami and Lateef Ayodele, in a ghastly accident that almost claimed his life, too.

Huge costs were incurred in taking the corpse to the mortuary for preservation before evacuation to the United Kingdom for burial. Also, it cost Anthony Joshua a fortune for treatment at Duchess International Hospital. Yet, Anthony Joshua did not bring his two friends to Nigeria to be killed but for a festive visit.

However, the system we run programmed the accident reminding us that our roads are largely structure functionally like a slaughter slabs where we daily lose lives.

Don't forget the Lexus 670 SUV in which Anthony Joshua rode in is damaged beyond repairs. Behold, another wastage that will cost millions of naira to replace.

At the end of the day, you can see that in barely six hours of Anthony Joshua's arrival in Nigeria so much preventable human and material wastages did not only occur, collosal post-traumatic pain was unleashed on Anthony Joshua, his families and friends; as well as those of Sina Gbami and Lateef Ayodele.

Oops, that is Nigerian system for you producing ubiquitous Frankenstein monsters on our roads and all over the place.

It is ironic that the Nigerian system which didn't create Anthony Joshua is the one set on the course of destroying him.

You can see the type of destructive, diabolical system we have in Nigeria responsible for our underdevelopment since independence in 1960.

Infact, our vile system would have been at work if the wreckage of the accidented vehicle was not quickly towed to the police station. Within hours, the vehicle would been missing from the accident scene!! Only scavengers or spare parts dealers will thereafter be able to account for the missing scrap.

Here in Nigeria money is the supremum bonum. It is everything.

In passing, I must not fail to observe that, because of the bad system we have in place in Nigeria, the government and policeman will only see the damaged vehicle as material evidence in court. Nothing more

So, it will be left to rot at the police station where it is parked.

Meanwhile, elsewhere with a good system, the accidented vehicle is taken to a public museum to enrich its archival collections. Too true, the vehicle will attract tourists to Nigeria interested in the visuals of a vehicle that nearly killed Anthony Joshua a celebrated two-time world heavyweight champion.

In the past, our lovely system incorporated humanness, charity and hospitality. It was a time most people cannot stand the sight of mangled steel, broken glasses, torn flesh, blood and corpses at an accident scene. Now the old order has changed. Our people have imbibed the paparazzi culture of filming such a scenery with epicurean pleasure. Hence, the sadistic spectacle of hordes of people rushing with their phones to record the crash while fast Ali Baba thieving fingers foraged for the personal belongings of Anthony Joshua as he writhed in agony from injuries compassion for him was not in sight from the crowd.

Only a few Nigerians with kind hearts, not yet hardened by our Machiavellian system, helped him out of the vehicle wreckage to a safe comfortable area.

Where are the federal road safety corps officials and our emergency response team? They are no where to be found although they told Nigerians they were prepared for the festive occasion. Hmmm, our warped system has elaborate provision for idle, cheap braggadocio talk.

Since the relevant agencies were not available, the police stepped in to assist in taking Anthony Joshua to hospital in a van, not an ambulance vehicle or helicopter without an emergency/trauma specialist in attendance.

Need I tell you a police van is for conveying arrested suspects or dead ones. Since the deficient system we run ignores to buy ambulances for the police, it is not its fault using a van as an emergency ambulance.

How about the corpses of Sina Gbami and Lateef Ayodele? They were driven ìn a federal road safety corps van to a morgue. Alas, our system did not live up to acceptable best practices in medicare emergency in the international community which rate us high in equivocation, graft, bribery, immorality, hypocrisy, religiosity, political deceit, misgovernance, indiscipline and corruption.

Ogun State Police Command in a release told the world that it has arrested Adeniyi Kayode the driver of the crashed vehicle. Thank God we were not informed that he escaped arrest to an unknown destination.

All said, not a few people even believed the police arrest narrative granted that most Nigerians distrust the police. Aware of this fact in our system, the police posted online a clip of Adeniyi Kayode in a police room writing his statement.

In the accompanying story of the post, Adeniyi Kayode said: "I wasn't overspeeding or driving recklessly. My brakes failed. I kept pressing the pedal. What happened was an accident. I have been Anthony Joshua's driver for three years...."

The clip didn't show any remorse on his face. It was emotion dry. Very bland!! This is not surprising because our chaotic anemic state of affairs over time has dulled our parasympathetic nervous system responsible for the healthy development of socially-approved emotions.

Professionally, the federal road safety corps say recklessness, over speeding and wrong overtaking by Adeniyi Kayode led to the accident.

So, since he claims that brake failure caused the accident, who is lying? The court will decide.

Res ipso loquitur. Yes, empirical facts will speak at the trial.

However, let me make this observation. Given that the driver is likely to be given a life sentence for driving without a valid licence, he is now a fat cash cow at the mercy of his traducers. Expectedly, our moneyed system operators are suspiciously at background work educating him on how to lie in his statement so as to go Scott free or get a reduced sentence.

In Nigeria, we have a system that largely only fully punish nobodies without connections and financial power.

That is why several Nigerians acquainted with our wicked system of favouritism and ethnocentrism fear that nothing will come out of the show trial of Adeniyi Kayode as it may end as a tragi-comedy only full of sound. A charade!!

Therefore, once again our reprehensive system will stifle a decisive opportunity to use the accident of Anthony Joshua to finally stamp out recklessness, drunken driving, sleeping on the wheels, over speeding and wrong overtaking on our roads by making a scapegoat of Adeniyi Kayode.

Hence, preventable accidents will continue to occur in Nigeria.

After the crash of Anthony Joshua, you may be the next statistical morbid victim. But you won't get the world attention he received from people including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governors Dapo Abiodun pf Ògun State and Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State. Why? It is because you are not a celebrity.

Remember, it is William Shakespeare who tells us that when beggars die, there are no comets seen but the heavens themselves blare forth the death of princes!!