ISA ALABI’S ARABIC POEM ON MAJOR CAUSES OF ECONOMIC CRIME IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH ISLAMIC LAW PARADIGM
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2025
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Fountain University Law Journal
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It is not in doubt that an average Nigerian citizen now passes through untold
hardship in a bid to secure daily bread and sustain his family. Prevalence of
economic crimes is one of the reasons accountable for this unpleasant situation.
A discussion of the problem, economic crime, is the main thrust of this paper.
Although, there have been monotony of legal and institutional frameworks from
the side of the government to combat the menace, the thorny pain from the woes
of the catastrophe is yet to abate.There has been a number of scholarly
researches into the causes of economic crime but same is yet to achieve the
much-anticipated result of taming the tide of the crime. It is thus the mindset in
this treatise to survey what could be major factors responsible for the spread of
economic crime with a view to advancing workable and effective solutions
thereto. The fashionable perspective of Isa Abubakr Alabi, a Nigerian Arabic
poet per excellence, in his poetic predication of the reason behind economic
crime on moral decadence in man, has caught the fancy of the present
researcher. To this extent, the work has adopted two different aspects of human
moral turpitude which the poet under reference mentions as the twin points of
instigation of economic and financial crime in the country. Employing doctrinal
method of legal writing, which is in tune with pure analytic engagement that the
pattern of work at hand requires, it is found that advancing adequate solutions to
the two alluded moral deficiencies in man and heeding the said solutions will
most likely checkmate economic crime and restore peace and fulfilment back to
all. The writer shall achieve this by engaging in deep legal analysis of the said
twin aspects of human moral decadence which have been discerned upon
reading the first two collections of Isa Alabi’sArabic poem; The Garden (Al-
Riyadh) and The Seven Lines-Patterned Poem or Rhyme Royal (Al-Suba‘iyyat) of
the same poet, Isa Abubakr Alabi.
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Economic Crime, Islamic law, Crimes and Nigeria