Corruption And Bribery Can Be Beneficial To Nigeria’s Development

[Robot]

://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/images/stories/article_images_3/tafa_balogun.If the country cannot increase the outrageously low take home pay of a police officer, the unlawful activities should be turn to an economic revenue generation ……“A bribe works miracles like a magic charm that brings good luck.” God Bribed Abraham by promising to make his descendants a great nation, and to give him and his family the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:1-7). Satan even bribes Jesus, when he took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and offered Jesus a tremendous bribe, that “All this I will give you if you kneel down and worship me.” ...Read the full article.

[Gbolly]

After all, many schools of thought (e.g. Lui Francis, Political Order in Changing Societies, in Journal of Political Economy) have theorized “corruption can be like ‘grease, ‘speeding up the wheels of commerce”.

This is similar to the school of thought: you chop, l chop, life is good...

[NWANZA]

The holy book is also of the same opinion, e.g. Proverbs 17:8, “A bribe works miracles like a magic charm that brings good luck.” God Bribed Abraham by promising to make his descendants a great nation, and to give him and his family the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:1-7). Satan even bribes Jesus, when he took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and offered Jesus a tremendous bribe, that “All this I will give you if you kneel down and worship me.” If going by the definition of bribe, Jesus himself bribed people, not with money, but with the assurance of eternal life and treasure in heaven if they obey God’s commandments (Matthew 19:16-26); pray and fast (Matthew 6:7-18), and repent (What Must I Do to Be Saved? published in 2004 by The Flatwoods Free Press). Frome the foregoing, Nigeria should not be deceived by negative report, confusing definitions by developed countries; rather we should look positively inwards of how to turn how ‘hereditary corruption tendency’ to economic advancement. This is because, God, Satan, the world, practiced bribery. The world’s growth and advancement is based on bribery, and Nigeria should not be left alone.

These quotations are missing the context within which it was extracted, but one thing is for certain - Bribery is a beast upon any nation.

PSALMS 26:10 "In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of abribes."

JOB 15:34 "For the congregation of ahypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bbribery."

EZEKIEL 22: 12~16.
12 "you men accept bribes to shed blood; you take usury and excessive interest and make unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
13 " 'I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.
14 Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.
15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. 1
6 When you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the LORD.' "