Today, everybody talks about corruption without any concrete suggestion as to how this common disease could be cured. The general impression is that every Nigerian is corrupt in one way or the other. It is like the ailment of malaria whose causes are well known, yet Nigerians prefer usage of drugs rather than the eradication of the causes of the disease, as an effective solution.
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It is true to say that the perilous state in which the country is in today is far from the glorious one imagined by all Nigerians and foreign friends alike in 1960. The situation has become clearer even after the attainment of independence in 1960 when we became our own masters. The disappearance of the hated imperialists whose hatred had cemented our fragile unity, threw us into the deep ocean of global economics and politics. Nigerians and their leaders got entangled in the crazy art of survival in a slippery political terrain.