Investigation Of The Effect Of Corruption ,Extortion In Conventional Police Stations On The Nigerian Citizens

Investigation Of The Effect Of Corruption ,Extortion In Conventional Police Stations On The Nigerian Citizens

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

One of the challenges facing public development and profitable growth in Nigeria is corruption. The former military governance of 1983- 1998 justified their defeat of the government on the base of corruption. In addition, the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, during his first term induction speech linked corruption as “ the country’s biggest problem, that pervades all aspects of mortal life from the home to both public and private institutions ”( Igbuzor, 200821 and Adebayo 200594). The corruption has come a wide miracle that has deeply percolated into the core of society and has nearly come the normal way of life. Preye Inokoba and Weleayan Ibegu( 2011283) have observed that “ corruption generally has eaten so deep into Nigeria ‘s body politics that its practice is seen more like a societal norm than an exception. ” People have internalized the belief that hard work, honesty and integrity, which contribute to the substance of mortal kind, are no longer good principles since one can do veritably little to get or earn so much. loose practices in Nigeria include bribery, fraud, embezzlement, highway robbery, favoritism and nepotism( Aluko, 20095). These practices have affected public development, political stability and good governance performing in severe rigors, a high rate of severance, the aggravation of poverty and inequality, and poor service delivery, for case in the provision of electricity and water.

The Police is one of the most important institutions in the society. They’re entrusted with the right to cover the citizen indeed when that involves the use of violence. further is anticipated of the Police than utmost ultramodern professional jobs. They’re anticipated to be stalwart and not show any mortal emotion like fear, shock, surprise, etc indeed in the face of serious tragedies like death, disfigurement, etc. really, peace, safety and security are both necessary and necessary conditions for development and the attainment of good quality of life for any mortal society. They give the needful enabling terrain for citizens to live and work towards social, profitable and political development of the society( Groenewald & Peake, 2004). The significance of peace, safety and security to humanity can not beover-emphasized as the socioeconomic and political development of any society depends on the security system available in similar society. By the same commemorative, their absence stifles the mortal capacity to develop and heavily compromises the development and quality of life of both individualities and society. likewise, instability impacts negatively on all citizens through losses of property, life and branch, or through loss of confidence from fear of violence. It’s against this background that the delivery of safety and security is considered a maintainable public good and the veritably substance of the state( Lubuva, 2004). mortal safety and security are indeed mortal rights having a value of their own and serving an necessary function in the construction of mortal pleasure and substance( Odinkalu 2005)

The Nigerian Police Force( NPF), in malignancy of the major part they’re needed to play in guarding the public and in the conservation of law and order, are frequently viewed by the public as a loose institution. This is because there are diurnal reports in the media of abuse by the police. The loose practices within the police department in Nigeria is so aboriginal that despite the multitudinous sweats made by the government in policy and nonsupervisory control, corruption remains delicate to manage. The failure of the government strategies to reduce corruption makes the issue of police misconduct an ethical challenge. The experimenter’s thesis in this study is that the colorfulanti-corruption strategies haven’t touched the core of society, considering the extent of police corruption in recent times. The experimenter argues that there’s need for policy makers to extend the hunt for the result to traditional culture to see if whether it offers certain values that can challenge corruption in the contemporary Nigerian Police Force. In other words, there’s a need to explore other approaches that have the eventuality to contribute values that will be effective in reducing police corruption.

Statement of exploration problem

The Nigerian Police Force( NPF), in malignancy of the major part they’re needed to play in guarding the public and in the conservation of law and order, are frequently viewed by the public as a loose institution. This is because there are diurnal reports in the media of abuse by the police. The essential loose tendency of its rank and train, Allegations are replete of police officers demanding backhanders from malefactors, allegations of the police demanding plutocrat from business malefactors,etc. more so, dropping the image of the force prevents it from efficiently performing its duties. The failure of Nigerians and the patient disinclination of the public to report crimes no doubt contribute to the inefficiency of the force. numerous people are hysterical that an honest citizen who reports a crime, rather of being praised, is at times turned into a suspect. Because of the attendant impacts regarding this, numerous citizens may watch a crime taking place and yet turn a eyeless eye to it. Another failing of the force is lack of sophisticated outfit to fight crime. Police warrant a workable and effective communication network. The walkie- documentary, apre-requisite for an effective force, is lacking. A mobile system of transportation is also lacking. And some of the functional ordnance that the police carry are shy and easily out- model or obsolete

Objects Of The Study

The primary ideal of this study is to

To probe the effect of corruption in conventional police stations on Nigerian citizens

To find out the causes of corruption In conventional police stations in nigeria

To find out how corruption and highway robbery can be reduced or canceled in Nigeria.

Exploration Questions

Do you suppose corruption in conventional police stations affect the Nigerian populace?

Do you suppose corruption has a cause?

Do you suppose corruption in conventional police stations can be canceled or reduced?

Significance of the study

The significance of this study can not be undervalued as

l This study will lay emphasis to probe the effect of corruption, highway robbery in conventional police stations on Nigerian citizens.

l The findings of this exploration work will really give the important demanded information to government associations, NPF, individualities, NGOS, and academia

Compass Of The Study

This study intends to probe the effect of corruption, highway robbery in conventional police stations on Nigerian citizens. Hence this study is demarcated to police stations in Lagos state and as similar, will be used as our case study

Limitations of the study

This study was constrained by a number of factors which are as follows

fiscal constraint is ineluctable considering the present profitable situations. Due to lack of finance at the experimenters disposal to get accoutrements and in printing of questionnaires. it wasn’t possible to visit some of the police stations and some of the victims of corruption.

In developing countries like Nigeria, there’s the problem of inadequate data.

Time factor time factor disguise another constraint since having to shuttle between jotting of the exploration and also engaging in other academic work making it uneasy for the experimenter

Functional Description Of Terms

disquisition this is the action of probing commodity or someone.

Corruption this is a dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.

Conventional grounded on, or in agreement with what’s generally done or believed.

Police stationthis is a structure which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff.