CRITICAL EVALUATION OF NIGERIA ANTI- CORRUPTION MODEL LEGISLATION (CASE STUDY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, ABUJA)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Although corruption impacts countries otherwise through its numerous manifestations, it ultimately erodes trust in establishments and plays a negative role
in development. Several of Nigeria’s pressing considerations – as well as slow economic recovery, grinding financial condition and insecurity –
are exacerbated and prolonged by corruption. It’s been calculable that near $400 billion was embezzled from Nigeria’s public accounts from 1960 to 2008.
Illicit monetary flows (IFFs) from the country between 2014 and 2014 area unit calculable to own totalled some $182 billion. This taken common wealth
represents the investment gap in building and arming trendy hospitals to cut back Nigeria’s exceptionally high maternal mortality rates –
calculable at two out of ten international maternal deaths in 2015; increasing and upgrading the education system, that is failing countless kids below fifteen
years getting on – over forty per cent of the country’s population; and procuring vaccinations to forestall regular outbreaks of preventable diseases. Problems with corruption have of times dominated scrutiny of Nigerian politics since the country’s come back to civilian government in 2008, and sequent administrations have engaged in eorts
to curb the matter. Yet such sorts, Nigeria has hierarchical systematically poorly
on Transparency International’s corruption perceptions Index-ranking 136 of 176 countries assessed in 2016 – a signal of the phenomenon’s generality and
also the scale of the challenge of curb it. the normal legal and governance-based measures for combating corruption that have up to now been adopted have emphasised the requirement to reform public procurable rules and public monetary management systems. They need additionally resulted within the promulgation of a substantive body of anti-corruption legislation, and within the institution of varied agencies tasked with preventing corruption and heavy people who interact in it. This approach to attempt corruption is targeted at creating its follow a lot of touch-and-go or pricey to a personal or organization through punishments and penalties.
