A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANCIENT JEWISH ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: AN APPLICATION OF AMOS 8:4-6

John Emmanuel Onomivbori, Simeon Iember Aande

Abstract


Humanity created organized society for the common good of all. Albeit that which was to provide security for the benefit of everyone in the socio-political environment unfortunately brought a cankerworm that has ravaged humanity and may continue perhaps to the end of the age. This monster which is no respecter of race, creed or status to mention but a few variables is corruption. Corruption runs through every strata of human society in varying degree. A bird’s eye view presents a gory state of human affairs. In the history of the Jews this sorry state of exploitation of man by man was witnessed in the time of an 8th century prophet in Israel known as Amos. Prophet Amos condemned in its entirety the perpetrators and perpetration of this evil. Nigeria is a product of human organization and has inherited the curse of state organization which needs to be corrected or ameliorated. The thrust of this paper is to do a comparative analysis between ancient Jewish anti-corruption strategies to draw lessons which Nigeria can and should emulate in her fight against corruption as enshrined in the government anti-corruption policy of the present administration.   

 


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