Nigerian Leaders amaze me with the term ‘Anti-Corruption’. Nigeria as a nation has come a long way, 52 years strong and yet the amount of people living in abstract poverty is on the rise each day. This leaves me with a question, is it lack of good governance?
Or that Nigerians have failed to say no to corruption? Questions that I’m yet to get a convincing answer to. Nigeria’s culture of corruption is no surprise to the tourist traveling to Nigeria being scared of corrupt government officials harassing them at the airport asking them what they brought with them.
The situation is so bad that corruption has almost turned out to be a national culture. It has been generally accepted that corruption is evil and responsible for the nation’s gross underdevelopment despite all its wealth.
With the high amount of human and material resources abound in the country, it is believed that Nigeria should be one of the greatest nations on earth. For nearly two decades now, various internationally recognized anti-corruption organizations have named Nigeria among the ten most corrupt nations in the World.
This is no surprise to Nigerians as we have government officials serving prison sentences abroad. The story of how James Ibori who worked in a hardware store in the London suburb of Neasden went from convicted thief in London in the 1990’s, to become governor of a wealthy oil-producing Nigerian state and then to a British prison is a remarkable one with the BBC Andrew Walker writing an article titled “How a thief almost became Nigeria’s president”. This is indeed a big shame to my nation.
The Term Paper on Religion and Corruption in Nigeria
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A nation is like an engine-less boat in the ocean, which would require a dedicated team and experienced crew to sail it to the shore. Poor leadership on the part of our leaders has contributed to the collapse of key public infrastructure and utilities in the country. Our dear nation has now become a popular reference point during academic disclosures on failed states.
The nation’s security, power, transport, health educational, industrial and agricultural sectors are all in shambles. We could recall how Agriculture was a major source of income for Nigeria before the discovery of oil and this has led to a spontaneous weakening of the nation’s oil-based socio-economic framework. Unemployment, poverty and crime have been on a sharp rise since about 1979 and these could be attributed to those factors.
It is believed that over five Trillion Naira was stolen under President Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration as Transparency International Advises Nigeria against corruption. This amount is equivalent to the yearly budget of a smaller country up to a period of ten years. If Nigerians can rise up and say no to corruption or no to their leaders electing themselves every four years, I believe Nigeria will be a better place for everyone to live, work and play.
