Corruption and Insecurity in Nigeria: a Fight Against It (a Study of Economic and Financial Crime Commission)
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY:
With this rhetorical question the researcher deems it imperative to delve on this topic “Corruption and insecurity in Nigeria, a fight against it. Every work must have its objectives in order to maintain a meaningful sense of direction, thus the following are the objective of this research work;
- To examine the causes of corruption and insecurity in Nigeria.
- To examine how corruption and insecurity hinders the growth of our society
- To examine the weakness of the institution set out to fight corruption
- To make recommendation, that will help in ameliorating the problem of corruption and insecurity in Nigeria.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter the researcher reviewed literature related to the study. The reviewed literature was organized under the following broad sections conceptual review, theoretical review, the review of empirical studies and the summary of literature review.
THE CONCEPT OF CORRUPTION:
Adeyemi, (2003) observed that corruption is endemic and is deepened by neoliberal policies of the government. These policies are more or less prescriptions by multilateral agencies and institution of the Breton Woods System which according to him are interested more in capital transfer than genuine national development.
Abor, (2006) sees corruption as a conscious and well planned act by a person or a group of persons to appropriate by unlawful means the wealth of another person or group of persons. This view sees corruption as the appropriation of property.
Abdulahi, (2007) stated that corruption is the diversion of resource for the betterment of the community to the gain of individuals at the expense of the community.
Ciroma, (2004) asserts that corruption is deliberate bending of the system to favour friends or hurt foes, to him any misbehavior, deviation from or perversion of the system, or misleading Nigerians or giving them wrong or distorted information about things they ought to know is called corruption.
Huntington, (2008) sees corruption as a lubricant “to intricate machinery of business and policies” to him corruption is associated with rapid social and economic organisation.
Owasu, (2006) corruption revolves around the opportunistic manipulation of regulation and rules of social conduct to achieve selfish, often time materialistic desire, in turn undermining the common goal.
CONCEPT OF INSECURITY
Onyemaizu, (2006) view insecurity as the breach of peace and security, whether historical, religions, ethno-regional, civil, social, economic and political that have contributed to recurring conflict.
According to Abraham (1942), insecurity is a feeling of general unease or nervousness that may be triggered by perceiving of oneself to be vulnerability or instability which threatens one’s image.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF EFCC
The history background to the existence of the economic and financial crime commission derived from the recognition from the late 1980s of the need to create a special interventionist agency to investigate economic and financial crime. At that time, the menace of advance fee fraud, with negative impact on Nigeria had been recognized. At the same time, it was recognized that the sophistication of economic crime were such that there might be the need for a special commission to handle its investigation and prosecution as apposed to the regular law enforcement agencies. By 2012, Nigeria found its way in the financial action task forces list of non-cooperative countries and one of the conditions for being taken off that list was compliance with recommendation 26 of the FATF’s then 29 recommendation which required the creation of a financial intelligence unit.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
This chapter presents the research methodology and processes involved in carrying out the research work. It includes the design of the study, area of the study, population of the study, sample and sample techniques. The instrument for data collection, reliability and validity of the instrument, distribution and retrieval of the instrument and method of data analysis.
DESIGN OF THE STUDY
In carrying out the study, the descriptive type of research was utilized. The researcher uses this method and was able to gather and interpret the data obtained so as to explain the phenomenon that led to the problems imagined in the study.
AREA OF THE STUDY
The study was conducted at federal capital territory Abuja particularly in the personnel of the economic and financial crime commission.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
Population could be defined as the totality of any well defined subject with common characteristics, which are of interest to a researcher. The population size of the study consists of 400 workers which is the numerical staff strength of the commission.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS
This chapter deals with the analysis of the data collected through questionnaire. Here, the views of the respondents are systematically simplified to enhance understanding.
The questionnaires administered were two hundred (200), but only one hundred and twenty were returned and appropriately filled. The remaining eighty (80) questionnaires were either misplaced or mutilated, not properly filled or returned unfilled. Thus such questionnaires were not utilized for this analysis.
From the table above, it can be deduced that out of the one hundred and twenty respondents, 70 (58.33%) were male while 50 (41.67) were female.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS:
This research work is on corruption and insecurity in Nigeria: A fight against it (A study of Economic and Financial Crime Commission). This work is divided into five chapters and each of the chapter is designed for specific purpose.
The first chapter is designed to provide the reader with the motivating factor of understanding the topic. This would be seen from sub-heading of the study. It also deals with the statement of problems, research question which were formulated to serve as guide to the entire work, the objective of the study, significant of the study etc.
The second chapter deals with the review of existing literature as it relates to the work. It is discussed under sub-headings to make for an easy understanding.
The third chapter works at the research methodologies used in the collection of data. The various methods were carefully discussed.
In chapter four, the data collected were presented, analysed and findings were also made.
CONCLUSION
From the discussion so far it could be inferred that corruption and insecurity have contributed to underdevelopment in Nigeria.
Any environment in inundated with corruption and insecurity is always accompanied with tensions and anxiety. The elimination of this threats and enemies of man should be the number one programme of the governments in Nigeria. This will rise to human development and a habitable environment for us all. Apart from the government own role, all hands should also be desk to eliminate this monster of insecurity in Nigeria.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The researcher in the process of this study has come out with the following recommendations:
- All future political office holders should declare their assets in an assets register before they can run for an elective post.
- Federal government should give EFCC full autonomy that will enable them carryout their duty without fear or favour.
- Federal government should equally supervise the activities of EFCC to ensure efficiency.
- A well design strategies should be adopted by the EFCC to checkmate the activities of all the political office holders.
- There should be public awareness on the effect of corruption and insecurity in our economy.
- There should be economic empowerment to reduce crime rate in the country.
SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDIES
The researcher suggested that other people who may be interested in the research topic should cover some other institutions such as Independence Corrupt Practice Commission (ICPC) and National Agency for Drug Administrative and Control (NAFDAC) to get more information which the researcher did not cover, due to insufficient fund and time constraint that the researcher limit to Economic and Financial Crime Commission EFCC.
Also, the researcher is suggested that, the interested person should research on a related area such as the effect of kidnapping on the economic development of Nigeria. The sample size should be increased and also that another data analysis tool should be used to enable the comparison to be more reliable.
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