WHY IS NIGERIA CORRUPT? (PART TWO)

WHY IS NIGERIA CORRUPT? (PART TWO)

The laws are enthusiastically made by the influential rich for the weak and vulnerable poor who themselves help in oiling the wheel of corruption by worshiping individuals with ‘heaps and heaps’ of corruption cases  on their necks, but as long as they keep spraying
this ill gotten wealth at praise singing ceremonies; no wrong is seen in such acts. Giving money to security agents at check points has become not just a normalcy but a law.  Civil servants must be bribed before they perform their statutory responsibilities.

Over the past years, the Nigerian government had taken some conceited efforts in the fight against corruption with the creation some anti graft agencies like  THE CODE OF CONDUCT BEAREAU [CCB], CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL [CCT] INDEPENDENT CORRUPT PRACTICES AND OTHER RELATED OFFENCES COMMISION [ICPC],  and the much talked about ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSSION [EFCC]. However, the efforts of these agencies are more or less like a drop of water in the ocean while in some quarters it is regarded as an ‘unfortunate political tool’ in the cold hands of the government in power which it uses at its discretion to witch hunt perceived political enemies. The public confidence in these institutions is almost at a zero level, and the reasons are not far fetched.  The anti graft agencies in Nigeria are like toothless bull dogs that can only bark without being able to bite.  Even when they try to bite, they do it like the curb web that is renowned for trapping only little and weak insects leaving the big ones to rule over the territory.

Uncountable number of public office holders have been arrested over allegations of stealing thousands, millions, billions, and even trillions  of our naira with the media shipping loads and loads of publicity about these cases to the public.  But sad enough, in their habitual way, those cases always end up at the federal high courts over technicality and not legality. Many of us see these as publicity stunt on the part of these anti graft agencies who try to build bridges where there are no rivers. Over the past decade, since the establishment of these agencies, they have developed a culture of loosing high profile corruption cases in court over flimsy grounds like improper documentation and what a view. But then, the train of blame does not stop at the gate of these anti graft agencies.

TO BE CONTINUED……..

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