GLOBAL CORRUPTION: AN EPIDEMIC BEYOND NATIONAL, CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, JOB, AND ETHICAL BOUNDARIES

The world indeed is sitting on a delicate balance arising from the emerging trends in the intricacies of corruption that has assumed a global proportion, as a direct consequence of moral, spiritual, religious, ethical bankruptcy that has dealt a great blow to mankind like a plague begging for solution. Giving the growing concerns of these attendance crises, that is direct products of these ugly but emerging trends, which portends a serious danger to mankind. It has become imperative to take a critical look at it with a view to finding a lasting solution as a way to restore the integrity of mankind and an attempt to restore the dying human values as a result of corruption. To be able to achieve this, a survey has been carried out to evaluate the immediate and remote causes of global corruption with the following questionnaire. Ten thousand opinions have been sampled with respondent cutting across gender boundaries and distributed across selected ten higher institutions in Nigeria, at the rate of one-thousand respondents per institution. The analysis of the sampled respondents which were in order of 61% (No), 72% (Yes) and 87% respectively have revealed that, global corruption is an epidemic without boundary and it’s not as a result of hardship and poverty but rather as a direct consequences of greed, human selfishness as well as moral and religious bankruptcy with a provision that restoration of moral and religious values, as well as ethics are possible through heavy/capital punishment for offenders rather than corporal punishment or counselling.