Corruption And Victimization In Isidore Okpewhotides And Anthony Abagha’s Children Of Olobiri

Corruption And Victimization In Isidore Okpewhotides And Anthony Abagha’s Children Of Olobiri

Chapter One

Preface

Background To The Study

Oxford Advanced Learner’scorruption as Dictiona dishonest or illegal geste , especially of people in authority.

In philosophical, theological or moral conversations, corruption is spiritual or moral contamination or divagation from an ideal. In frugality, corruption is payment for services, or accoutrements which the philanthropist isn’t entitled to under the law. In government, it’s when an tagged representative makes opinions that are told by vested interest rather than licit or established government or party regulations.

In life there are political, moral and systemic corruption or abuse of power. Moral or political corruption involves the abuse of public power, office or coffers by tagged government officers for particular earnings, by highway robbery, embezzlement, soliciting or offering backhanders or other forms of persuading. Official corruption is a specific form of a misconduct designed to gain overdue benefits, particular earnings or career advancements. Police Officer, for illustration, occasionally despise the police law of conduct in order to secure conviction of suspects through the use of falsified substantiation.

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Systemic corruption is the complete subversion of a political or profitable system – which is primarily due to a weakness of an association or process. It can be varied with individualities, officers or agents who act corruptly within the system. Lack of translucency, low pay, injustice, covetousness, exploitation and poverty are the factors that encourage corruption.

Corruption poses a serious development challenge; it undermines republic and good government by despising or indeed cankering formal processes. Corruption in election and in legislative processes reduces responsibility and distorts representation in policy timber. Corruption in the bar compromises the rule of law and corruption in the public administration results in the hamstrung provision of services. It violates introductory principles of the country regarding the centrality of communal virtue. Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. There’s also artificial corruption; this occurs when fix is pride by a supplier to an assiduity or a manufacturer in order to vend low quality goods at the price of good quality products.

Corruption is a dangerous force that hinders government and represses individual in numerous countries throughout the world. It’s generally a word used to qualify the actuality of common social ills that affect the entire aspects of our society.

Victimization is the process of being victimized, getting a victim or being unfairly penalized. Victimization means making someone a group of people to suffer unfairly because you don’t like them, their opinions or commodity that they’ve done. The trauma of victimization is a direct response to the fate of illegal discipline. Victims suffer tremendous quantum of physical and cerebral trauma. The physical injury suffered by victim may be as apparent as cuts, bruises or broken arms and legs. It’s common for victims to be fatigued, unfit to sleep or have increased or dropped appetite.

numerous victims believe that the stress caused by victimization endangers or exposes them to physical or cerebral problems latterly in life.

In our society, people are victimized because of or for numerous reasons. In the ancient days and still in some places women are being victimized after their misters ’ death and when they’re unfit to give birth to children. Women are frequently socially and psychologically victimized in the absence of their misters and children. Men who are impotent or childless suffer victimization by not allowing them to comfortably state their opinion in their fellowsocialmen’sgathering.

When one is denied of his rights and effects and is maltreated for no maintainable reasons, he’s being victimized. Such a person frequently tries to avoid society and especially the company of his victimizers or those opposed to his way of life.

Statement Of The Problem

Nations, Associations, Institutions and individualities especially those mentioned in the novels understudy share in or experience corruption in different ways that are frequently overt or covert. Euphemisms are frequently used to make corruption and/ or victimization less obnoxious or palatable in the society. frequently, their perpetrators short ― sacred ietycow — Thos ‖ e inpeoplthe ― respectsoc defy. This study intends to explore the languages the lawbreakers construct and frequently use to hoodwink the society.

Objects Of The Study

This exploration work is conducted as it’s an area where nothing has worked on. The study is being made to expose the problems caused by

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corruption and victimization and their goods on the public and private sectors of our public life and frugality and conceivably proffer useful suggestions results to the malaise.

Compass Of The Study/ Limitations

principally, the study is concentrated particularly on corruption and victimization as explored in runs by Isidore Okpewho and Children of Oloibire by Anthony Abagha. ReferencesandAbagha ’ other workshop and workshop of other pens, journals, magazines and journals would also be made to enrich the study.

Significance Of The Study

This exploration has both practical and theoretical significance to the general public especially social association, institutions, social activists, psychologist, leaders and erudite artists who should understand the position of corruption and victimization operating in the society. It’ll also bring to spotlight the impacts of corruption and victimization on individualities and society at large. This work is accepted with the intention that the result will be of help to the leaders of the nation at all situations of government, serve as a good material to scholars and scholars as well as concerned persons who

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may like to make farther exploration on this subject matter in the interest of all and sundry.

Methodology

Since this study TidesisandbasedAbagha’sChildrenonOkpew of Oloibiri, the methodology will principally be erudite in terms of what the

library and the internet will offer by way of reviews, journals, magazines, journals and interviews on Niger Delta literature and terrain.