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Nigeria

The ‘new morality’ which has emerged from the military era is such that there is general acceptance among most members of the power elite that power is for profit rather than for responsible exercise of its privileges or for service. This philosophy has resulted … in the privileges of power being used for pillage. The ‘new morality’ encourages and protects chaos because members of the new elite have vested interest in chaos despite its long term danger to social stability and their real or permanent interests. Report of the Presidential Transition Committee, unpublished, Lagos, September 1983,…