One imprecise impression we all have about the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is thinking that it’s ongoing loot recovery, modelled after the bravado of Abacha’s failed banks tribunal, is fight against corruption. No, it isn’t.

Why did I say this? The nation is trapped in a labyrinth of social malaise but the fixation is on a single issue. Nothing is working in Nigeria. Everything is in a state of disrepair. You cannot prevent corruption when a Level 8 civil servant in Abuja is earning N70,000 or so per month and when the minimum salary is still N20,000. How do you expect N20,000 to feed, cloth, shelter and transport person in Abuja (or any other city for that matter) for 30 days? In a country where public institutions are not functional, how can this crumb cover school fees and medical bills?

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I suppose the messenger in the president’s office is highest on Grade Level 6, earning a monthly of about N28,000. He cannot live on this pittance without finding ways of making “ends” meet, either by hiding files or leaking confidential documents.

What has this administration done, as a way of fighting corruption, to change the life of a police constable earning N43,000 salary to stop taking bribes at checkpoints? How do you survive in Abuja on N43,000 without getting tempted to fraudulently enrich yourself?

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give a thief $1b, s/he will still steal...


pay a corrupt person salary of N4m p/m, such a person will still be corrupt.


increasing salaries/benefits in isolation of other checks will be futile.


people steal for mainly 2 reasons;


1. the benefits of stealing outweigh the repercussions of such a person is caught stealing;



2. the boss (es) of the person stealing are also complicit in the act or are willing to gloss over the stealing based on certain variables such as ethnic & religious affiliations, political expediency, nepotism etc.




fighting all types of corruption is much better when it is done as a process, an action that occurs naturally without being teleguided or or used as part of a propaganda tool.



in Nigeria today, there are checks (not perfect, but appreciable enough to make an impact in the anti corruption fight) but those checks are hampered by weak sanctions & ulterior motives for fighting corruption.

Absolutely no sir!