ARMED ROBBERY IS A WORSE ENEMY OF OUR COUNTRY THAN BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

Chairman Panel of Judges, accurate Time Keeper m co-debaters. Ladies and Gentlemen and fellow students, good morning. am standing before you to oppose the motion "bribery and corruption are worse enemies of Nigeria than armed robbery". Though bribery and corruption and armed robbery are both serious social malaise plaguing our society, one is more grievous than the other in terms of the dangers they constitute in the country.
Bribery i and corruption is a mere form of gratification to get an unmerited favour from somebody or a place while armed robbery is a serious crime of forcibly dispossessing another person of his property using guns and other weapons of coercion. Armed robbery is a more serious crime and even the government recognises it as such. This is why successive governments over the years have always executed armed robbers publicly as a deterrent to others.
Armed robbers have killed many people in the country and maimed several others. Several people who would have contributed to the development of the country have been killed or rendered useless by armed robbers. Foreigners and business experts from other countries who have come to invest in the country are not spared. Many foreigners have been killed by armed robbers, thus giving the country a bad image while scaring the foreigners away from the country. This has had a serious and devastating effect on the country.
Similarly. Nigerians always live in fear. Armed robbery is a daily occurrence in the country. Nobody knows when i these armed robbers will strike. Nigerians are not safe during the day or night as they walk during the day in fear and sleep with one eye closed at night. Armed robbery is the greatest scourge of all the social malaise.
Bribery and corruption is harmless compared to armed robbery. Armed robbery stigmatizes the country; nobody wants to identify with a country with a high record of armed robbery. It is a thorn in the flesh of the Nigerian. society which attracts the attention of the government more than bribery and corruption. It also constitutes a clog in the wheel of social and economic development of the country.
I believe strongly that with the above mentioned points. I have been able to convince you that armed robbery is the worst enemy of the country. I thank you for your patience.