Title:
USING CULTURE AS A PARADIGM FOR ERADICATING CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA, YORUBA CULTURE IN THE CONTEXT

Authors:
Siyaka muhammed, Enikanselu Adebayo and Fatoyinbo Mayokun, Nigeria

Abstract:
Culture serves as a social tool for maintaining historical knowledge and maintaining order in all premodern societies. One way to look at it is as teaching one the fundamentals of what constitutes right and wrong behaviour, moral versus immoral behaviour or acceptable versus unacceptable behaviour in the society. Comparatively, development is most likely to emerge in acceptable behaviour valued and upheld. The incorrect, immoral or unacceptable behaviour could hinder development in the society. The unacceptable behaviour contradict the culture of respect, honesty, transparency, openness, accountability, probity, belief systems and way of life valued in the same society (Baecker, 1997). Corrupt practices are by all standards unacceptable behaviours and according to International Transparency (IT, 2021), corruption takes place in many forms, including behaviors such as: Public employees requesting or accepting money or favors in return for services, politicians squandering public funds or providing public positions or contracts to their sponsors, friends, or families, and companies bribing authorities to get lucrative business agreements. Corruption exists in every facet of society, from business to government to the judicial system to the news media to the nonprofit sector to even the sports world. ...