Nigeria, March 16 -- "Corruption thrives where there is silence"- Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN.

Compare the above quote from Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, the youthful Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), with the one often attributed to the 18th-century Irish philosopher, Edmund Burke, which says, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".

Disputes have arisen as to whether Burke, and not the British philosopher, John Stuart Mill (1876), made this quote. Mill was quoted as saying "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing". What had earlier been attributed without any controversy to Burke in his book...