I am having a hard time reading the rest of this article as the writer starts off on the wrong premise by not seeing that part of that corruption is in fact represented at the very highest level of government in the defacto salary and benefits ordained by the legislators for their services. This is not only criminal but wantonly crass in nature. it negates the very essence of who we are. Nigeria is a poor country with vast resources and paying such wages to public servants is out of character with comparative salaries anywhere on the planet. It insults our intelligence and elevates these charlatans to levels beyond their pay grade. it then makes a mockery of the service which they were elected to render. Not even private sector CEOs and directors can justifiably command those remunerations in a developing economy such as ours. Everything else follows from there, symptomatic of corruption itself. Any attempt to correct corruption must then begin there whether or not its a quantitative representation or not.