At first, I resisted the temptation to comment on the N80bn embezzlement or “corruption” probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission and its ‘acting’ Managing Director, Prof Daniel Pondei, who th
eatrically ‘slumped’ during questioning in the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly last week. My initial reluctance to comment came from a certain sense of déjà vu about the whole charade. Forgive me for saying this, but corruption is an overused term in the Nigerian political lexicon.
Let us unpack these two hypotheses by looking at how corruption is tied to the political economy of the state in Africa. During the colonial struggle for independence across the continent, starting from the late 1930s, through to the late 1950s, the state was the Leviathan exerting itself over and suffocating the inhabitants of the territories under occupation. It was a totalitarian state, which afforded the colonised little room to breathe, let alone exercise individual freedoms.
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