Sir: Since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, an overarching question has been that of corruption. The foundations may have been laid in the 80s and 90s when the savage military dictatorships of Babangida and Abacha turned public funds into personal playthings.
However, it took the return of democracy and the triumph of transparency over terror for Nigerians to know the true extent of the scourge. Indeed, till this day, there are genuine fears that the true depth of the rot is not fully known. This is because there has never been a thorough forensic audit to determine just what the country has lost to the thieves it has allowed to stampede its corridors of power.
The progress which saw Nigeria move up four spots from the previous ranking when it placed 134 may be as deceptive as they come for it did not indicate that Nigeria became less corrupt in that time but simply that other countries picked up the pace of their plunge into the precipice of corruption.
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