USA Africa Dialogue Series - "Former vice mayor of China’s Lyuliang City sentenced to death for corruption"

Friends:

 

Below is the only viable solution to bureaucratic corruption in Nigeria:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3151444d316b7a6333566d54/share_p.html?fbclid=IwAR0H3QoooB9OMQljM31HzTZztYQZes8mBMFfcfILxqnT0p4cxwKCGyMFibc

Since African governments, including Nigeria's, have taken a liking to Chinese loans, development grants, economic partnerships, etc., they should also learn to copy her example on how to deal effectively with bureaucratic corruption. As I see it, nothing short of the death penalty can curb bureaucratic corruption in Nigeria!

 

I convinced, without any doubt whatsoever, that nothing short of the death penalty can contain the scourge of bureaucratic corruption which has eaten do deeply into ALL facets of Nigeria's public life at the federal, state and local government levels, that only the fear of death can checkmate it. As you know, that malignant cancer exists within all three branches of governance—the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. You may not fail to agree that bureaucratic corruption is the principal cause of the grassroots' want and penury in the Republic. In general, Nigerians love life a lot; and, so, dangling the death penalty before their eyes will induce such fear that public money will come to be seen as a sacred cow—the untouchable or what in the Igbo language will become known as "akwukwo onwu" (that is, the piece of paper that brings death).

 

Public servants will not need any international trips to Dubai for workshops on how to resist the urge to divert public money to their private coffers.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3151444d316b7a6333566d54/share_p.html?fbclid=IwAR0H3QoooB9OMQljM31HzTZztYQZes8mBMFfcfILxqnT0p4cxwKCGyMFibc

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Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor and Head

Department of Africology and African American Studies

Eastern Michigan University

Email: vokafor@emich.edu

Tel: 734.487.9594

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