NEGLECT OF MORALITY IN THE QUEST FOR TRUE REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERROGATION

Abstract

It is evident that the Nigeria State is rapidly degenerating to the State of irredeemable decay and the quest for revolution, becoming rapidly inevitable. The burden of this paper lies in the interrogation of the continuous neglect of morality in the quest for true revolution in Nigeria, owing to the fact that every sector of life in the country is in need of massive moral purification, which came to context as a result of massive corruption. It is necessary to raise up some pertinent questions here: what is revolution? What is corruption? Who is corrupt in Nigeria? Can a corrupt fight corruption? What is morality? Can one fight for revolution without being morally upright? Can Nigeria become an ideal society without moral re-orientation of the citizens and the application of this morality in all sectors of life activity? Our contention in this paper is that in a Country like Nigeria which is witnessing corruption and irregularities in every sector of life, self-moral revolution should be the first step towards making a quest for socio-political revolution.