This story from Premium Times maybe of interest to some. Other than the poor and the marginalized of all regions in Nigeria, among many ruling elites and technocrats in the country, there is a tendency for corruption to be a case of "equal opportunity."
In this respect, the country is moving really in the direction of "national character." I lament that. The Washington Conesus prescribed the deregulation of the economy for the sake of increased efficiency and productivity, but in Nigeria, we went beyond that by having a "deregulation of people's moral and ethical" conscience.
The human mind and soul for many people in the country have become the crucible for unregulated and insatiable raw human desires where in the platonic tradition, appetitive desires have taken over the human soul / spirit and reason. Without self- regulation and self-restrain, the human mind and soul turn into anarchic environments, leading the society into great disorder, if not quasi-anomie in some cases. The problem of social order is the foundational problem of every civilization as Hobbes made the case. How you achieve social order is an open-ended question.
Thus, one of the greatest failures of Nigeria is the moral and ethical one and in that respect, sociologically, the destruction of institutions that are charged with the responsibility of inculcating such moral and ethical values, which help in cultivating self-restrain, relative contentment, and control of wild human desires and appetite is truly the wasting of Nigeria's potential as a nation. It is still not too late, if the people of the country are determined. Here is the weblink:
Samuel Zalanga
Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Reconciliation Studies
Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive #24
Saint Paul, MN 55112.
Office Phone: 651-638-6023
Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Reconciliation Studies
Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive #24
Saint Paul, MN 55112.
Office Phone: 651-638-6023
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