We Must Kill Corruption Before Corruption Will Kill Us

We Must Kill Corruption Before Corruption Will Kill Us
Author: C. Anguslaz Anokwute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781792958335

Beside religious bigotry and ethnicity, the major thorn in the flesh of the Nigerian nation and a troubling index is the twin monster of bribery and corruption. Really, Nigeria's image, everyone knows, has been a very bad one, so battered into shame by both aliens and Nigerians themselves-- via this act of bribery and corruption. At the wake of the overthrow of the government of the first republic Nigeria in 1966, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu averred: "Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds". Yes, since the time of Nzeogwu and his fellow coupists, each coming government in Nigeria has always promised to make the fight against corruption its cardinal objective. But certainly and sadly enough, most of those successive governments in the country have only paid lip-service to the system, while the Heads of Government had either participated in the loots directly or through proxies, or felt indifferent.The Economic & Financial Crimes Commission has been doggedly fighting to change the bad narrative about Nigeria, especially recently under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr Ibrahim Magu. Though there may be concerns (genuine and imagined) here and there about the operations of the apex anti-corruption agency, but it can only get better as Nigerians cooperate with EFCC-- even as the relevant Laws governing the operation of this all-important agency are being reviewed or strengthened to curb perceived excesses or arbitrariness; and more-importantly to give more legal biting teeth to the crime-fighting organization.Yes, and indeed, the war against corruption is one that must be won; because according to President Buhari, it is either we kill corruption or corruptions kills Nigeria. And in this well-intended fight, only the guilt needs to be afraid!

The Great Deformation

The Great Deformation
Author: David Stockman
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1586489127

A former Michigan congressman and member of the Reagan administration describes how interference in the financial markets has contributed to the national debt and has damaging and lasting repercussions.

The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians

The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians
Author: Ronald E. Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2002-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199245517

These translations of fragments of Origen's 'Commentary on Ephesians' and the complete text of Jerome's 'Commentary on Ephesians' use collateral texts from other works of Origen, Jerome and Rufinus to show Jerome's dependence on Origen in numerous passages of his own commentary.

Profiles in Corruption

Profiles in Corruption
Author: Peter Schweizer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0062897926

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of six-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe. Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons’ international money flow, exposed global corruption, and sparked an FBI investigation. Secret Empires exposed bipartisan corruption and launched congressional investigations. And Throw Them All Out and Extortion prompted passage of the STOCK Act. Indeed, Schweizer’s “follow the money” bombshell revelations have been featured on the front pages of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and regularly appear on national news programs, including 60 Minutes. Now Schweizer and his team of seasoned investigators turn their focus to the nation’s top progressives—politicians who strive to acquire more government power to achieve their political ends. Can they be trusted with more power? In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances, and secrets deals of some of America’s top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn’t disappoint, with never-before-reported revelations that uncover corruption and abuse of power—all backed up by a mountain of corporate documents and legal filings from around the globe. Learn about how they are making sweetheart deals, generating side income, bending the law to their own benefits, using legislation to advance their own interests, and much more. Profiles in Corruption contains tomorrow’s headlines.

Ecocide

Ecocide
Author: David Whyte
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526146975

We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor in continued profitability in a scenario of a five-degree increase in global temperature. An increase that will kill millions, if not billions. This is the shocking reality laid bare in a new, hard-hitting book by David Whyte. Ecocide makes clear the problem won’t be solved by tinkering around the edges, instead it maps out a plan to end the corporation’s death-watch over us. This book will reveal how the corporation has risen to this position of near impunity, but also what we need to do to fix it.

They Eat Our Sweat

They Eat Our Sweat
Author: Daniel E. Agbiboa
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2022
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198861540

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of transport unions acting in complicity with the state. Steeped in an embodied knowledge of Lagos and backed by two years of thorough ethnographic fieldwork, including working as an informal bus conductor, Agbiboa provides an emic perspective on precarious labour, popular agency and the daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the modern world system. Corruption, Agbiboa argues, is not rooted in Nigerian culture but is shaped by the struggle to get by and get ahead on the fast and slow lanes of Lagos. The pursuit of economic survival compels transport operators to participate in the reproduction of the very transgressive system they denounce. They Eat Our Sweat is not just a book about corruption but also about transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa.

This Land

This Land
Author: Christopher Ketcham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0735220980

"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--

Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous

Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous
Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262539675

A frontline account of how to fight corruption, from Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has written a primer for those working to root out corruption and disrupt vested interests. Drawing on her experience as Nigeria's finance minister and that of her team, she describes dangers, pitfalls, and successes in fighting corruption. She provides practical lessons learned and tells how anti-corruption advocates need to equip themselves. Okonjo-Iweala details the numerous ways in which corruption can divert resources away from development, rewarding the unscrupulous and depriving poor people of services. Okonjo-Iweala discovered just how dangerous fighting corruption could be when her 83-year-old mother was kidnapped in 2012 by forces who objected to some of the government's efforts at reforms led by Okonjo-Iweala—in particular a crackdown on fraudulent claims for oil subsidy payments, a huge drain on the country's finances. The kidnappers' first demand was that Okonjo-Iweala resign from her position on live television and leave the country. Okonjo-Iweala did not resign, her mother escaped, and the program of economic reforms continued. “Telling my story is risky,” Okonjo-Iweala writes. “But not telling it is also dangerous.” Her book ultimately leaves us with hope, showing that victories are possible in the fight against corruption.

China's Gilded Age

China's Gilded Age
Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108802389

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for the economy and political system. Since market opening, corruption in China has evolved toward access money. Using a range of data sources, the author explains the evolution of Chinese corruption, how it differs from the West and other developing countries, and how Xi's anti-corruption campaign could affect growth and governance. In this formidable yet accessible book, Ang challenges one-dimensional measures of corruption. By unbundling the problem and adopting a comparative-historical lens, she reveals that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money. In doing so, she changes the way we think about corruption and capitalism, not only in China but around the world.