''Arise, O compatriots, Nigeria's call obey. To serve our fatherland. With love and strength and faith'' listening to the national anthem on a radio station earlier today and was wondering how many of us are really obeying that clarion call.
First and foremost what is corruption?
Corruption is any abuse of a position of trust to gain an unfair advantage. This includes both corrupting someone else and being corrupted oneself. It is also the abuse of public resources to enrich or give unfair advantage to individuals, their family or their friends. Corruption summarily is a dishonest actions.
We blame everything on the government, but deep down in our minds majority of us are more corrupt than the government. How you may ask?
What would you call a parent who pays a teacher to make his child pass an exam?
What about a student who writes an exam in a special Centre so he/she can cheat to pass?
What would you call a person who bribes to be promoted in a job?
Or the person who pays to beat a queue?
I can go on and on but the bottom line is that we are all corrupt one way or the other no man is a saint so instead of pointing accusing fingers to the government, why not we all try to make an effort to be honest in everything we do and gradually our country would change for the better.
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