An Examination of Anti -Corruption In Nigeria---- Issues and Challenges.

Corruption has continued to hinder the development of Nigeria, and as a matter of fact, has frustrated the realization of the noble national goals of this country, despite the abundant natural and human resources God has blessed us with. Several years ago, the successive governments we've had put in place various measures, polices and programmes geared towards eradicating corruption in Nigeria. The most significant of these measures are Murtala/Obasanjo's Jaji Declaration of the 1970s, Shagari's Ethical Revolution of 1981 and the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) by Buhari/Idiagbon's administration in 1984. In 1986, General Ibrahim Babangida established the National Orientation Movement and Abacha's administration set up War Against Indiscipline and Corruption (WAI-C). However, all the anti-corruption initiatives during the military era did not yield any positive change(Aderounmu 2009).
In a similar vein, when Obasanjo came to power in 1999, he told Nigerians that corruption was the major clog in the wheel of Nigeria's progress and, until the social problem is eradicated, development will elude Nigeria. Accordingly, his government put in place different anti-corruption measures to solve the problem.
These include among others, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt
and other related offences Commission (ICPC). These initiatives, at the inception of Obasanjo's administration raised the hope of Nigerians with the expectation that the changes will bring to book past corrupt officials and also act as a deterrent to others. Unfortunately, these programmes and strategies made little impact in the war against political corruption in Nigeria. For instance, for three successive years,2001, 2002, 2003 Transparency International ranked Nigeria as the second most corrupt in the world.
Subsequently, when Nuhu Ribadu became the EFCC chairman in 2003, Nigeria's corruption profile started to decline. In 2007, prior to the exit of Ribadu, Nigeria was later ranked 32nd out of 147 countries rated in the world. This implies that Nigeria's corruption profile reduced to 115th position in the world. But after the exit of Ribadu, Nigeria's corruption profile started increasing.
To be continued...........

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