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Title:Address causes not symptoms: engaging the festering culture of impunity from the dimension of fragility in Nigeria
Authors:Eke, Surulola James
Tonwe, Daniel A.
Year:2016
Periodical:African Studies (ISSN 1469-2872)
Volume:75
Issue:1
Pages:133-152
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:violence
corruption
impunity
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2015.1129135
Abstract:The complexity of the problems plaguing the Nigerian nation is beyond what is imagined. Contrary to the claims of the Nigerian government, these issues are not exaggerated. The vices discussed in this article are deep-rooted and traverse all segments of society. Laws are disregarded to the extent that they seem a mere fulfilment of the requirement for statehood. Every basis of identity, political, communal, ethnic, and religious is also a unit of conflict. Virtually all institutions - educational, legislative, judicial, executive, and security - of government are entrapped in the race for the 'balkanization of the country's 'national cake''. The nature of functions determines the character of corruption in government agencies. The pervasiveness of these issues is owed to an environment that has created a culture of impunity. The weakness of state structures, along authority and capacity dimensions of fragility, explains the sustenance of a culture of impunity despite huge resources devoted to the campaign against it. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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