“Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today

Corruption can simply be defined as an immoral and dishonest exploitation of power for personal gain and it can also be defined as a total betrayal of Public Trusts. “In Igbo tradition, a betrayal of public trust is likened to treason, and so such a man or woman does not deserve life.” These days you can hardly mention a leader in Nigeria, without a criminal record past or present, so if I may ask, what will be the moral justification of a leader who came into power through fraudulent means to preach against corruption? 
 Corruption is also the bane of development in Nigeria, and until we apply lethal treatment to it, we can not move any further than we are today, with all the petroleum dollars, the Ordinary Nigerian Citizen still suffers in abject poverty, not because we are lazy but because of the greed, of some of our leaders. But I believe the judgement day for corrupt leaders from 1960 till date is coming very soon, and there is no hiding place for the living and the dead. However, it should be noted that most of this corrupt leaders flourish when the country they govern cannot raise good and honest candidates to challenge them during elections. That’s why Gen. Sanni Abacha knew he was not a favourite of the people yet he wanted to be a life president.
  After all my research I came to a conclusion that it’s not only the leaders that are involve in corruption, the citizen are also involved in it, knowingly or unknowingly. I may not fault them because once a leader is corrupt so will the downstream be. In my research, I also found out that corruption is beyond looting public treasury, seriously its beyond that, even when you drive through one way you are corrupt and you are one of Nigeria's problems. When you litter the street with pure water sachets, urinate anywhere, you are corrupt! When you disobey the traffic light because there is no police man around, you are corrupt! When you are unruly and you are fond of disrupting orderliness in the society you are corrupt! And even patronizing fake Products and Musical CD, s is corruption. For God sake lets do things right in this nation, we don’t have to be told. We all know what’s wrong and what’s not.
  Finally to end this topic, I would say this, Corruption and mismanagement can occur anywhere in the world, but what is important is not the corruption but how the people and government react to it, so I believe things can only change if we take that initiative to make a change. As far as am concerned, there is no Yoruba problem. There is no Igbo problem. There is no Hausa/ Fulani problem. There is only a Nigerian problem. We solve the problem not as an Action Congress Patriot or ANPP Patriot or PDP Patriot or any party supporter but as Nigerian Patriot. We should come as one Nigeria to solve that problem. “God Bless Nigeria”
 
These is a simple chain of what is going on in Nigeria Presently : “From amongst the people come corrupt leaders- corrupt leaders practice corruption- corruption brings about poverty- poverty enslaves the people- the poor people are forced to substitute their values for bread and keep silent in the face of brazen corruption and abuse of office- soon the values are forgotten, the people now worship naira and all those who have it not minding the source- the people due to poverty keep bad leaders in office- more corruption leads to abject poverty, lack of education, lack of good roads, crime etc- the bad leaders cant stand decay in society and move their families abroad “
So, the problem is not only the leaders, but we ALL are to be blamed for Nigeria’s problems. And so also we the citizen are to be blamed for keeping silent, while our nation is plundered. 
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Wisdom quotes by past and current leaders, legends and heroes.
 
1. “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny” '-Wole Soyinka

2. “Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.” -Olusegun Obasanjo

3. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” -John F. Kennedy