#CorruptionEntailsMore
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Whenever someone hears about “fighting corruption” in Nigeria, the person would start to think that the end-product of such a noble fight would be a sane nation filled with disciplined and well mannered upright citizens.
Let us make things clear.
A country without corruption should have a very clean system in operation, and the citizens should have very high sense of discipline.
Thus, for a corrupt country that wants to fight corruption, the real “fighting of corruption” should be: “to get the system clean as much as possible, and then, get the citizens to value the virtue of discipline as much as possible”.
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Corruption goes far far far beyond embezzlement and misappropriation in public offices.
There are a lot of little things we do in our everyday dealings, and a lot of little things we overlook in our everyday-lives which constitute corruption.
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If you jump queue for no good reason, you're corrupt.

If you meet traffic jam, and you left your track to join the left track so as to get to the front of the traffic jam to cause more chaos, you are corrupt.

If you make any profit from any source that is more than 50% at first reselling, you're corrupt.

If you are getting paid by any means which you did not work for (probably as a result of your own making, or as a result of an existing faulty system), and you did not own up in time, you are corrupt.

If you are in officer in charge of a system that was reported as having some loopholes, if you decided to cover up the reports and leave the loopholes in place rather than stopping it, you are corrupt.

If you are being smart at obtaining some things at the expense of some innocent law abiding citizens (whom you might have referred to as fools), you are corrupt.

If you are thinking within yourself that, “abiding by the rules and regulations is being foolish/stupid”, you are corrupt.

If you are thinking that, “with money, you can do anything you like, and sort yourself out”, you are corrupt.

If you think that you have people at the top, and therefore, you are free to gain access to anything you like, which you are naturally entitled to, you are corrupt.

If you fail to hand over something that belonged another person (be it a tangible object, or a position) just because the person was not aware that it belonged to him or that he had not asked to have it back, and you kept it to yourself, you are corrupt.

If you bargain with people to pay you extra tips before you do your job which is supposed to be your duty, you are corrupt.

If you reduced the quality or quantity of your job which is supposed to be your duty, just because there were no tips, or that the tip was small, or that the previous tip was little, you are corrupt.

If you obtain anything by false pretence, no matter how little or big, you are corrupt.

If you always wish to live a lavish life, but you don't have a lawful means of income to provide for the lavish life, even if you end up borrowing so as to live the lavish life you always lived for, you are corrupt.

If you don't pay tax, or, if you pay tax that is not up to the tax you are supposed to pay, you are corrupt.

If you accept any job that is above your capacity, and you went ahead to deliver it shabbily, just because you wanted to get the pay that goes with it, you are corrupt.

If you are doing anything that you are not good at, and you couldn't subject yourself to more training and enlightenment on the thing, or choose to leave the thing for someone that knows it better, you are corrupt.

If you take bribe, no matter how little, you are corrupt.

If you don't like your job, yet you are still there doing it very badly and getting the whole firm down, with the thinking that after-all, they will still pay you your due salary; you are corrupt.

If you see something that the whole lot of people are doing, and you know that the thing is very wrong in itself, those people doing it are corrupt. If you join them in doing it, you are corrupt

No matter how huge amount of money you see or process in the line of your duty, if you dare to have any access to any dime that is not yours, no matter how little you took, you are corrupt.

If you are in charge of putting people in some positions, and you put some names into some juicy positions that they are not supposed to be in, rather than the positions they rightly deserved, you are corrupt. Even if you did it for free, you are corrupt.

If you are in any position of power, and you use the power in favour of your selfish personal benefits, or to suppress or intimidate the people who you are supposed to serve with your power, you are corrupt.

If you are law maker and you deliberately made some laws with loopholes, so as to favour some people over the others, you are corrupt.

If you are a law maker, and you discovered some loopholes in an already existing law, and decided to take undue advantage of the loopholes rather amend the law, you are corrupt.

If you are a religious leader, and you are more interested in making your congregation to fear and worship you rather than fear and worship God, and you make your congregation tremble at whatever you say, even when you are very wrong, you are corrupt.

If you are a religious leader, and you are busy developing formats of preachings for blessings and curses on your congregation that would make them to donate more in their offerings and tithes, you are corrupt.

If you are a religious leader, and you are more interested in preserving the religious rules and regulations made by your religious institution, rather than the spiritual wellbeing and the good morals and virtues in the congregation, you are corrupt.

If you are perfect in shifting blames from yourself, to the extent that you will never be blamed for any of your wrongdoings even when you are totally wrong, you are corrupt.

Even here on Nairaland, if you have multiple accounts which you use to spam and lure people to your copy-and-paste blog, you are corrupt.

Here on Nairaland, if you presented a catching topic/title to a link which you provided in any of your comments, but the content which the link redirected to was totally different from the topic/title (even if the content is interesting), you are corrupt.

In summary, if something is very wrong in itself, and it would tell badly on the people and on the community, if you went ahead and do it, you are corrupt.
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There are many more everyday-examples of corruption amongst us as “normal” citizens.
We can't name all of them in this thread,, although we can try to mention all of them if we wish to.
But, the earlier we start making moves to correct all of these little corrupt behaviours within us and start living better, then we are fighting corruption.
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I believe that one day, when Nigeria becomes free from corruption, CBN and NNPC and NLNG would be advertising annually for vacancies in the newspapers, and people would apply, and at the end of their recruitment exercises, those recruited would be the so called “normal” citizens, without any links or ties.

Let's expose corruption in all spheres today.
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