INTERROGATING IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON NIGERIA’S SOVEREIGNTY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MARXIST PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Abstract

With the claws of corruption in virtually every aspect of Nigeria’s national life, index and taxonomy of corruption lost account of how deeply this vice has eaten into all that sovereignty imports under International Law. Interrogating effect of corruption from the perspective of Marxist Philosophy of Law therefore, the paper, by doctrinal approach found that despite obvious gaps in Marxian dialectics over the years it ought to be taken more seriously in the reality of Nigeria’s socio-economic-political situation where, as a result of total failure of rule of law arising from corruption, the Nigerian State is withering away to the precipe of a failed State in the reckoning of contemporary world. The paper thus recommended that natural law as a conscience-directed philosophy should re-evolve to give Nigerian laws greater fortitude to contain, to re-engineer the Nigerian sovereignty, both domestically and before the International Community.