Bring Back Corruption
- Nigeria Sahara Reporters 2016
- 5p.
The article bemoans Nigeria state of the economy, as it is gripped by the familiar anxieties of an economy in distress. This escalating crisis has demystified the incumbent government, once thought capable of astute, if not magical, economic management. In their desperation for respite, many Nigerians are now paradoxically yearning for the corruption that they and their leaders blame for their economic woes, but theirs is not a nostalgia for corruption per se but for a period in which, despite or because of corruption, the flow of illicit government funds created a sense of economic opportunity and prosperity.
