BARBARISM TO DECADENCE : nigeria and foreign complicity

Since independence in 1960, Nigeria’s successor leaderships and the private sector manifestly failed to dispense good governance and corporate social responsibility. Both sectors, tacitly aided by foreign institutions and corporations have perverted the ends of government and justice. Ergo, in Barbarism to Decadence, Abudu Rasheed “Richard” Oki offers an encompassing but cursory evaluation of each successor corrupting maladministration, participatory industry roles, and systemic debaucheries, along with the vast derivative adverse impacts on the citizenry. Through research, eyewitness accounts, personal experience, etc., the book presents an assessment of the devastating decades of adventitious effects of otherworldly corruption on the nation, and a look at the overall septic effects of the vice on the rest of other black African nations. Ab initio, it delves in on characteristic fractious leaderships; past immiserating military decades; compromised judiciary/law enforcement; fraudulent elections; decrepit power supply and infrastructure; human health and educational fetidness, duplicitous and complicit local and international media; natural resource curse and colossal environmental pollution; modern-day religious chicanery and radicalized Islamic terrorism; elites’ otherworldly and authoritative brigandage; and ever-present suffocating misfeasance and malfeasance in the private sector. There are also the overall, undermining roles from overseas nations, institutions, and corporations; and, sui generis, China’s hegemonic role. These are part of vast interrelated factors that hermetically immure and immolate her lumpen masses in the bonds of anomie. That correlative societal demise is portrayed in marasmus and spectral looks, along with mass spiritual and mental atrophies. Yet her affluent minority and foreign expropriation of its raw wealth and assets remain at exhilarating boil. The grim hard facts and figures indicate that Nigeria absolutely needs to be set on the right path for the long-term needs of her marred population. Meanwhile, the masses intrinsically remain restive with brutish thoughts, here and there. To wit, the crystallization of that armed mass revolutionary mettle should never be discounted in her future. So, the book provides crosscurrents, and propounds on ways to sustainably adjust her venal course mainstream. Pithily, it seeks to provide a clarion call to jettison present, and block future, serially rogue leaderships for the summum bonum. Cover Page Barbarism to Decadence Copyright Contents Exordium Acknowledgments Part One Generational Malversation I. Colonial and Neocolonial Heritage II. Democracy and the Constitution III. Ochlocracy, Kakistocracy, Kleptocracy Athwart Democracy IV. Governance and Leadership V. Judiciary and Law Enforcement – Willful Ignorance and Corruption VI. Elections – Voter Fraud and Chicanery VII. Government – Structures and Strictures Part Two Economy And Wealth Distribution VIII. Socioeconomic Development Part Three Legalized And Systemic Defalcation IX. Government and Corruption X. Too Big to Fail – Financial Institutions and Private Sector XI. Cost of Government and Willful Prodigality XII. Privatization and Fleecing of Government Assets and Resources XIII. Power Supply – The Ravening Maw XIV. Infrastructure Projects – Gravy Train Part Four Media – Duplicity And Complicity XV. Local Media – Complicity and Corruption XVI. International Media and Black Africa Part Five Natural Resources Curse XVII. Crude Oil – Discovery and Corruption XVIII. Niger Delta Insurgents and Crude Oil Curse XIX. Petroleum and Mineral Resource Cartage and Foreign Complicity XX. Petroleum and Mineral Resource Pollution and Foreign Complicity Part Six Indigenous And Foreign Usurpers XXI. Otherworldly Fleecing – The Untouchables XXII. Government and Foreign Complicity XXIII. Second Scramble for Africa – Enter China in Nigeria Part Seven Mass Societal Spiritual Atrophy XXIV. Religion - Exploitation and Fraud XXV. Boko Haram and Government Barbarism Part Eight Society In Putrescence XXVI. Education, Health and General Societal Demise XXVII. Society in the Bonds of Anomie Conclusions Appendix A: Notes Appendix B: Glossary Bibliography