Friday, January 4, 2013

Nigeria: Going Down the Corruption Drain

by Eze Eluchie

Ghana is now globally acknowledges as an example of a success story in the African continent. Ghana has transformed from (and continues to transform) into a respectable and responsible member of the international community, making giant strides in virtually all spheres of human and societal advancement.

We must however not forget that it took a drastic sanitation and cleansing of the corrupt rulership in the Ghanaian polity during the President Rawlings-era to build the necessary foundations that founds Ghana’s present prosperity.

The Nigerian superstructure, its core institutions (the Executives at various strata’s, its Judiciary and the legislature) are enmeshed in corruption that has transformed Nigeria into a danger and an embarrassment to its citizenry, the African continent and a potent source of threat to global security.

Perhaps the time has come when we begin to sensitize the international community and the world-at-large about the need and possibility for a drastic (Rawlings-type) solution to the corruption pandemic afflicting the Nigerian contraption!


Picture: Former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings


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