Nigeria has been romancing corruption for too long. Efforts by successive administrations to end the romance have been unsuccessful, because it seems as if Nigeria cannot survive without corruption. And it is a fallacy to think or believe that Nigeria cannot survive without corruption. These days as efforts are being made by President Muhammadu Buhari to reign in corrupt politically exposed Nigerians and turn the economy around into a truly productive one, where there are no free monies, the uninformed yell, “Bring back corruption!”
When you inquire why they want to bring back corruption they reel out the prices of essential commodities when corruption was walking on four legs in Nigeria and say that they were better off then, than now when corruption is being tackled and billions of naira and dollars recovered from looters.
It is perhaps ignorance of the enormity of the damage done to this country by corruption that makes many Nigerians to be very tolerant of the vice. It is…
