The Corruption And Insecurity In Nigeria: A Fight Against It

The Corruption And Insecurity In Nigeria: A Fight Against It

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

The topmost interference to development especially in the third world countries has been attributed to corruption and instability. Aliu( 2010), observed that people in high places are loose because of rapacity. His view tend to have wider support as utmost people feel that the coffers available in these country has the capacity to guarantee every members of the society with their introductory need of life.

According to political office report( 1987), corruption is basically a product of our largely personalized materialistic society which emphasizes struggle by individualities to acquire as important wealth as they can without regard to how important wealth was attained. Mba- Afolabi( 1999), maintain that this situation has led individualities and groups of persons to pursue colorful illegal andanti-social means of making wealth.

Akintunde( 2007), quested that the challenges that corruption poses to public life is grave. he maintain that since independence on 1960 consecutive administration have been netted in heads of confidence grounded on formulating and enforcing policy that will lead this country out of corruption.

Ibrahim and Igbuzor( 2002), editorialized that the poor people in Nigeria rate instability as the crucial cause of poverty, they don’t inescapably see poverty as a cause of fortified conflict. They maintain that the incapability of the government to give introductory infrastructural and introductory service for its crowd, new conflicts have surfaced through politicized agents who have used the condition of the poor people to address the responses or non- responses of the state to the legal literacy of the citizen.

Eventually, for the purpose of this study, instability is refers to the breach of peace and security, whether literal, religious, ethno-indigenous, civil, social, profitable and political that have contributed to recreating conflict, which Nigeria has witnessed over the time performing in wanton destruction and loss of lives and property.

Statement Of The Problem

serve to state their instability and corruption has been linked as a main bane militating development and corruption public concinnity in Nigeria. The following exploration problems are linked;

· Does corruption and instability hamper the growth of our society.

· Does EFCC makes use of good strategies in fighting corruption

· Does good labor force engaged in fighting corruption.

Purpose Of The Study

With this rhetorical question the experimenter deems it imperative to claw on this content “ Corruption and instability in Nigeria, a fight against it. Every work must have its objects in order to maintain a meaningful sense of direction, therefore the following are the ideal of this exploration work;

1. To examine the causes of corruption and instability in Nigeria.

2. To examine how corruption and instability hinders the growth of our society

3. To examine the weakness of the institution set out to fight corruption

4. To make recommendation, that will help in upgrading the problem of corruption and instability in Nigeria.

Significant Of The Study

· This exploration work is designed to know the prestigious causes of corruption and instability and the stylish strategies to check them.

· It’ll inversely enlighten the general public on the negative effect of corruption and instability on the frugality.

· It’ll serve as a reference material for farther academic exploration work

· It’ll inversely produce an enabling terrain for EFCC to fight corruption.

Exploration Question

1) Is poverty a contributing factor to instability in Nigeria?

2) Does corruption leads to instability?

3) Does tribalism and nepotism contributed to instability in Nigeria

4) Is EFCC successful in combating corruption?

5) Is greedy a contributing factor to corruption in Nigeria.

Compass Of The Study

This study concentrated on the corruption and instability in Nigeria. A fight against it a study of profitable and fiscal crime commission( EFCC).

LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

The experimenter faced several obstacles, terms, hindrances at the cause of this exploration work which incapacitated him from carrying out a thorough job. These limitations range from inadequate fund, time label, turndown by some of the staff of EFCC to give a necessary information.

Description Of Terms

It’s important to conceptualize the meaning of the crucial words used in this work as it’ll obviously grease the appreciation of this work of exploration.

EFCC Economic and fiscal crime commission

CORRUPTION Corruption is the diversion of coffers for the betterment of the community to the gain of existent at the expenditure of the community

execution This is the process of trying to prove in a court of law that notoriety is shamefaced of a crime.

CONVICTION This is the act of chancing notoriety shamefaced of crime in a court of law.

MANIPULATION This is the process of impacting notoriety, frequently in a dishonest way so that they don’t realize it.

Instability This is the breach of peace and security, whether literal, persuasions, ethno-indigenous, civil, social, provident and political that have contributed to recreating conflict.