According
to the United Nations [UN] convention on corruption, there can be no
universally accepted definition of corruption, based on several factors such as
political, national, regional etc. Defining corruption or giving it a name will
depend on
the podium on which one stands, and here are some of the proposed
definitions.
www.vocabulary.com defines corruption as
“Dishonest actions that destroys people’s trust in the person or group”
www.oxforddictionaries.com
defines corruption as “Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power,
typically involving bribery”
Similarly, the
anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International defines corruption as “The
abuse of entrusted power for private gain”
Whatever
angle we choose to look at corruption or the side of mouth that we decide to
use in defining it, one thing that remains constant is the fact that corruption
is a social ill, a canker worm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of our
nation. The landscape of our country has been so flooded by the waters of
corruption that even our lifestyles have been drawn into its dirty waters. This
has given birth to a nation that depends on institutions that survive by
breathing in the oxygen of corruption.
Our traditional, historical, political and religious culture have been
redesigned and tailored with the cheap fabrics of corruption. Little wonder
they say ‘for you to become someone in Nigeria Nigeria
We have all climbed this
stage in the theatre of absurdity, dancing to the busy tones of corruption with the style where we trade our
electoral Rights for monetary reward,
the judges sell their conscience to the highest bidders, examination miracle centers are erected in
all corners of the country to manufacture academic grades for lazy illiterate
secondary school leavers who then
export the same attitudes in search for
admission into our ivory towers of
knowledge; what happens there after is a
forest on its own.
TO BE CONTINUED.......
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