Lesley Agams writing about impunity and Nigeria's culture of corruption:
In Naija the tendency is to forgive all transgressions like Zik said, we’re conciliatory. Catch a thief and we collar him with a tyre but if we catch someone cheating we are reluctant to punish. ‘Don’t destroy his career, his marriage or whatever’... We didn’t do anything when they stole a little so they just keep getting bolder and bolder. And by doing something I do not mean writing editorials or holding press conferences or protests. We didn’t gather the evidence and prosecute diligently. We turned a blind eye, even shared with the looters. Till they over ran us.More here
Give an opportunist an inch she’ll take a couple thousand miles. A study I read last week in the WSJ online suggest only one per cent of the population is honest all the time no matter what and only one per cent is dishonest all the time no matter what. The 98% of the population that is in between these two extremes will be dishonest if they feel they can get away with it and are kept honest by deterrence.