The BBC English Dictionary defines integrity as “the quality of being honest and firm in your moral principles.” It further explains the integrity of something such as a group of people as “its quality of being one united thing.” This understanding of the word calls forth several pictures and moral questions that border on the quality of our leaders, the strength of their moral fibres and their commitment to the survival and integrity of the nation. Each time a group of Nigerians mount the stage either as our democratically elected leaders, or take up the reins of state power by strokes of fate, they have almost always received the full moral and material backing of