{"id":63262,"date":"2018-07-30T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=63262"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:09:41","slug":"collapsing-moral-undertones-againstthe-present-anti-corruption-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/collapsing-moral-undertones-againstthe-present-anti-corruption-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing Moral Undertones AgainstThe Present Anti-Corruption War."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO iy_A\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The presentanti-corruption war being waged by the President Muhammadu<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Buhari regime hasexposed the weak moral undergirding on which the country<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">rests. The battle to extirpatecorruption and its well-known debilitating<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">effects on the country\u2019s moral fiberhas exposed the fact that most<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerians live on the grid of corruption and theseemingly palliative it<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">offers them in dealing with their problems. The levelof rot and decay<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">afflicting the moral sinews of Nigeria were clearlyunderestimated before<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the present effort, which is the most far-reaching andcomprehensive<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">assault on corruption since our flag independence in 1960. To saythe<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">least, the present battle to fumigate our terribly-infected system<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">hasexposed most Nigerians in their full ugliness and hypocrisy. The war<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">againstcorruption strains our moral nerve to its breaking point because<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the hard truthis that most Nigerians live off corruption and they are wont<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">to see any battleagainst the epidemic as a war against them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">From thedisappointing religious leader who has turned his pulpit to a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">theater ofscurrilous assault on the war against corruption to politicians<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">who have donevirtually everything to belittle and sabotage the war against<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption. Fromthe traditional ruler that sees the war against corruption<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">as a war forannihilation to the businessman who has found out that he<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">cannot survivewithout the patronage of corruption. From the youth that is<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">being made to believethat corruption is the surest means of survival to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the political opinionist whobelieves that he will never survive unless<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption is allowed to fester.From the journalist who had found out that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">he cannot practice his art outsidecorrupt patronage to minions that feel<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the pangs of not being fed from thecrumbs of corruption, there is no<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">hiding the fact that any meaningful waragainst corruption in Nigeria will<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">look like a mass holocaust which is why noNigerian leader had made any<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">meaningful effort to stem the corruptionpestilence before Buhari came.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s facethe fact. Corruption had been allowed such a long reign that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">some Nigerians arebeginning to believe that any war against it is a war<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">against the country. Corruptionhas been so ingrained in Nigerians that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">most Nigerians easily believe that anybattle against it is a battle<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">against them. Corruption has been so deep-rootedthat Nigerians now accept<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">it as normal. Corruption and corrupt acts have beenso tolerated that many<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerians genuinely feel that removing it from our bodypolity can spell<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">doom for all Nigerians. This is the reason why so manyhitherto-respected<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">public figures brook no shame today moaning so noisily abouthow the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">country had been brought to her knees because we have a regime that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">isdedicated to the task to tame the allure of corruption. That is why<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">someshameless religious leaders have so soiled their robes and callings by<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">makingopen cases for the sustenance of corruption. That is why many<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">journalists haveinterred their honor, integrity and objectivity in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">putrid grave ofcorruption and are o unabashed doing everything to sabotage<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the war againstcorruption. That is why many respected voices have, in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">moments of desperationfor illicit cash, submitted to be interred in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">rubles of corruption. That iswhy politicians have resorted to very deadly<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">measures to stymie the war againstcorruption and frustrate its<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">protagonists.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">But have weasked of the real benefits the country gained in its long years<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of patronizingcorruption. Pray, what structures have we built as a nation<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">since we submittedhook, line and sinker to the debilitating atrophy of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption? What realvalue have we gotten for our long period of romancing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">high-level corruption?The answer is that we got nothing but rot, decay,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">defenestration, wreckage andtotal damage. The capital we made from our<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">long tryst with corruption is theprostrate and hugely despised country<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria was in the internationalcommunity before Buhari came with his<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">winnowing fork. The dividends ofcorruption in Nigeria are the fatuous gang<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of rich thieves we had and anexpansive swath of hopeless, directionless,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">malnourished masses that ogledwhile their narcissist trade of mass<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stealing lasted. The benefits we got fromour long corrupt past are the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">dead infrastructures we ended up with, thetwining security miasma, the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">mass unemployment, hunger and privation that allcombined to reduce Nigeria<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">to a state of nature where life is brutish, shortand nasty!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Let usrecall that before Buhari came with his war against corruption,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">almost everyvoice, both here in Nigeria and outside Nigeria believed that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruptionconstituted the greatest impediment to the growth of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">country. Almost everyvoice believed that expunging the corruption parasite<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">from the country\u2019s systemholds the key to Nigeria\u2019s attainment of global<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">enviable status. Let us recallthat before Buhari came, religious leaders<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">were running themselves giddy withthe cry for someone that can lead the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">country from the corruption quagmire. Letus recall that opinionists were<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">poignant in demanding Nigerian leaders to wagea frontal war against<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption. Perhaps it is certain that none of these knewthe real depth<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption had reached or how seemingly impossible it is toeliminate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">without exerting so much skin-pain on the society. Perhaps mostNigerians<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">never knew the extent corruption had a hold on them and their meansof<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">living.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Today,Buhari has offered himself as the sacrificial lamb that attempts the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">impossibletask of severing the bond that holds Nigerians and corruption<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">together and theuprising against that effort is being felt everywhere. Now<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">knowing how thesystem is intertwined with corruption, most Nigerians have<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">offered a volte-faceand are indeed making curious and strange cases for<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption. We have seenhow tempestuous the battle to stop corruption has<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">been on the political scenewith politicians going very desperate levels to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">compromise and indeed stop thebattle against corruption. We have seen how<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">our religious institutions havecapitulated to the aroma of corruption by<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">making very embarrassing casesagainst the present war against it. We have<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">seen how journalists have almostthumbed down the war against corruption in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">very clear terms and shamelesslymaking cases for the corrupt and corrupt<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">practices and reliving the good olddays of ceaseless corrupt patronage<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">from those that stole the country silly. Wehave seen how politicians<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">contract desperate means, including mass killing,incitement, hate speech<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and very many odious means to stop the war againstcorruption and reap the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">illicit political capital from such obnoxioustendencies. We have seen how<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the masses have been made to erroneouslycapitulate to the antics of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">desperate politicians by several means. They are beingmade to bay hunger<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">in such disgusting manner that shows that fightingcorruption tantamount to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">mass hunger. All these speak of a collapsed societaland individual moral<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">fiber that is responsible for the near collapse of thecountry in the first<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">place. Simply put, this is a symptom of a society that hadbeen built on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the quicksand of corruption.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Yes, we knowthat corruption has so many disciples and is bound to mobilize<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">tremendoussoldiers to fight back against any effort to stop its ravenous<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">spread. But thefact remains, as President Buhari has always said, we must<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">either killcorruption or it will kill us. There are no half-ways about<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">this. The decrepitnature of the Nigeria Buhari inherited is an apt<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">testimony of the disastrouseffects of corruption. The wrecked and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">vandalized form of the country thatBuhari inherited while minions of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption were growing fatter justadvertises the fool-hardiness of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption. The prostrate state of the infrastructuresthat were handed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">over to Buhari tells of the horrific aftermaths of corruption.The pallid<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">state of the economy, the pervasive poverty, the overwhelmingjoblessness,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the dead and prostrate economy that predated Buhari\u2019s war<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">againstcorruption, even with the rich earnings from a persistent oil boom<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">shows thatcorruption still remains the deadly virus it had been and needs<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">nothing but thekind of total battle Buhari is taking to it now.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The nationmust do everything to rebuild its collapsed moral sinew.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerians need to tametheir lust for illicit favour from the state,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">readjust to the reality of hardwork and living within their means. They<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">must accept the present war againstcorruption as a necessary battle we<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">must wage to get our country on the rightfooting for greatness. We must<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">live with the reality that nothing easy comeseasy and accommodate these<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">realities as the needed moral templates that willguide Nigerians towards<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">building a new country not shackled by internecinecorruption and greed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Peter ClaverOparah<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ikela,Lagos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:peterclaver2000@yahoo.com\">peterclaver2000@yahoo.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div class=\"P_0 je_fq7\">\n<ul class=\"hd_n D_F eo_HB M_gQyVX P_0\">\n<li class=\"E_6Fd5 Y_6LEV\" data-test-id=\"attachment-tray-list-item\">\n<div class=\"W_3n93F p_R\" data-test-id=\"attachment-item\">\n<div class=\"I_2iedTo k_w H_7yHc p_R o_h\" data-test-id=\"attachment-container\">\n<div class=\"D_F ab_C gl_C H_6D6F\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"A_6Eb4 i_6FIA J_x D_F r_P\">\n<div class=\"en_0\">\n<div class=\"D_F u_e69\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presentanti-corruption war being waged by the President Muhammadu Buhari regime hasexposed the weak moral undergirding on which the country rests. 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