The Politics Of Corona Virus In Nigeria: An Ethical Critique
Dr. Jude Chinwuba Asike
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Dr Patricia Ogugua Anwuluorah
Department of Religion and Cultural Studies, Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, An Affiliate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Abstract
This paper extols the virtue of “common good” in resolving conflicts associated with the spread of corona virus pandemic in Nigeria. This paper employs the notion of ethics as an essential exercise in self-understanding of environmental crisis management, towards the unilateral power of reconfigurations of the political community of united citizenship in Nigeria. Every ounce of a political community is reconfigured to accept the community/national development along the linear path of the good health management services for the sustainability of individual life expectancy in the state. This is purely determined for the increase in capacity for greater freedom, self-discipline, and creativity and material wellbeing of the individual existence. The society is basically made for the common good. So, the paper therefore is an attempt to investigate the structure that will determine the realization capacity of societal good in Nigeria, where every individual come will be working for the common good. This will be with respect to the control of COVID 19 pandemic and other environmental crisis in Nigeria. Thus, it is in this trajectory that our central task in writing this paper, will be to evaluate the moral structure associated with these problems. What alternative normative structure that is logically available to use for handling such situation like corona virus pandemic in Nigeria. Considerably, we are herein in this paper to discuss the moral justifications of common good in avalanche of the heteronormativity of cultural differences in Nigeria. There must be a unilateral support for life, irrespective of differences in economic class, societal and political variables of the Nigeria State sovereignty. The findings of the study support the thesis that, under a public policy directives, the whole aim of human rights are for the “common good”. It is to carve out a protected sphere of the sovereign political community into amiable one of human existentialism.