Nigeria: Corruption and Insecurity in Nigeria

opinion

Nigeria is not the worst country in Transparency International's (TI) Corruption perceptions index. It is rated 136 out of 175 and score's 27/100, on a par with Kenya and the Ivory Coast. But most interestingly our neighbors Niger, Cameroon and Chad seem to have scored better than us in the recent ranking. Where have we really gone wrong? Was this a deliberate attempt to rubbish the Nigerian government and it citizenly? I guess your answers are as good as mine, everything has been politicized in the country, and the zeal for a genuine fight against corruption is gone. The government felt corruption has been over exaggerated and have even come out to differentiate between mere thief and the real ones.

The vast majority of Nigeria's people do not trust the police. Ninety percent of respondents in a 2014 TI survey in Nigeria considered security services to be either corrupt or extremely corrupt. It is widely believed that the security agencies in the country do not even want an end to the insurgency in the Northeastern part of the country because without the state of emergence most of the top official will have little to feed on. This give us an insight as to why there was frustration among the security operatives in the country over the government inability to get the national assembly extend the emergency rule.

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