Corruption seems all pervasive in Nigeria, even in Africa. It looks like a mindset that has affected all peoples, tribes and cultures. We see it everyday and it looks too big to take down. We can’t do anything about it, about the corrupt wicked ‘everyday’ individual, corporate leader or political leader. But it has a weakness. Its the same weakness of capitalism, of corporations, of the military, of every system on earth constituted by humans. If the central most fundamental nature of the sinful man is SELF (romans 7, the ‘I’ factor), then this SELF has one weakness: GREED. GREED, the never ending want for more. For the selfish and the self centred, its never enough. They want it all and that’s why they are selfish: they are unwilling to share.

This nature can be exploited. It is the chink in their armour. A rich man is willing to sell you the rope that’ll be used to hang him if he can make a hefty profit of it. A politician is willing to open up to truly democratic systems like pure enlightening education for instance, his eventual downfall, if on the surface it will seem to help him entrench his power further and make more money. A corporate leader is willing to expand the media reach of a counter culture program if he feels it will initially grant him much viewership and therefore increased advertising profits. That Police official is unknowingly willing to get caught on camera if he initially thinks you’re going to give him a hefty ‘egunje’. Greed: the weakness of self. We can exploit this weakness to begin to change Nigeria.

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