UNDERSTANDING CORRUPTION AS A HUMAN NATURE PROBLEM

This paper challenges traditional anti-corruption interventions and makes a radical claim that corruption is a human soul problem. Using Judeo -Christian philosophy as the main underpinning, the author asserts that global anti- corruption campaigns and crusades are bound to fail- a self-fulfilling prophecy-due to their failure to affect, influence and transform the real antecedent of external acts of corruption which is that corrupt, evil, and mischievous human soul dwelling in each humankind. The Author argues for the integration of ethical and moral principles into anti-corruption codes that have the capacity to deliver, renew and salvage inherently corrupt human consciences…………….