CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE OF MERCY

Abstract

Corruption in Nigeria enjoys an unraveled fame whose knowledge, one neither requires the dexterity of a herald nor an excruciating probe of the intellect to decipher; its ubiquity is phenomenal in all respects. It lies beneath the façade of complexus of vagaries of social cum political problems confronting the nation. It is a malaise that wears the toga of an enigma that defies a definite description, yet intimate in all fronts. Several attempts from divergent perspectives have been made to quell the issue of corruption in Nigeria. This work another attempt at seeing how the issue of corruption provides a socio-cultural context for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy proclaimed by the Holy Father, Pope Francis I on 11th April 2015. Being a year of mercy, this piece calls on the corrupt to look at the poor with mercy as the tyrannical greed of the corrupt shatters the plans of the weak and tramples upon the poorest of the poor.