Saturday, June 9, 2012

Corruption in Nigeria

We live in a country that is quick to blame corruption for everything thing that is wrong in the country. Really, if corruption is the trouble with Nigeria, then I believe our trouble is half-solved. And again, I don’t quite believe we know the meaning of corruption because if we do know that corruption is the biggest of all our challenges and we know the meaning of the word then we can give it all it takes to save the country from corruption.

 I want to believe that corruption indeed is the biggest challenge that has bedevilled Nigeria, because former president Olusegun Obasanjo did all he could to raise hell against corruption. And his arch enemy at the time, NLC President Comrade Adams Oshiomhole never faulted the claim that Nigerian’s biggest challenge was corruption, he only posited that Obasanjo anti-corruption campaign was a one-man orchestra.