The article discusses the prevalence of corruption in Nigeria and its impact on the nation's development. It highlights the growing proportions of corruption and the lack of hope for redemption. The author uses the case of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to illustrate the extent of corruption in the country.
Mr Adebo deployed the curious skill of a practised researcher, from the prism of an agitated change agent, largely working from the case of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to extrapolate a national, even global cancer... Corruption seemed intertwined with the evolution of Nigeria as a nation-state. It has been a malaise, a big elephant in the room, regularly talked about, loathed through synchronic rhetoric, but growing in systematic proportion, with little or no hope of redemption.
The discourse of corruption looks, therefore, like an exposition of the nation’s attempt at social, economic and political development. From the descriptive “ten percenters” of the 1960s, it has gestated to greater fractions, sometimes 100 per cent, with gusto, extraordinary impunity and bravado, after the fashion of persons plundering a captured territory. The looting of the public patrimony has been differently described as prebendal, predatory, rapacious, locust-like, or mindles
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