It is observed from the survey that corruption has become so pervasive that Nigerians need to embark on a change of attitude, change of mindset and change of behaviour.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) says there is a high level of corruption across various sectors in the three arms of government and private sector.

The Provost of the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria, Tunde Babawale, a professor, said this at the validation meeting of the Nigeria Corruption Index (NCI) Survey in Abuja

Mr Babawale said that the findings put corruption level within the legislative, judicial, and executive arms of government and private sector at 42 per cent between 2022 and 2023.

”All the sectors have been found culpable and found to be highly corrupt, the legislature, the judiciary and the executive, all of them have been found to be corrupt

”Although at the level of the state, the score differs from one state to the other, but the bottom line is that there is an overall score that we found is that over 42 per cent in our own scale is highly corrupt for the entire country.”

According to him, it is observed that corruption has become so pervasive that Nigerians need to embark on a change of attitude, change of mindset and change of behaviour.

“Meaning that people must begin to develop a high intolerance level for corruption as we are now, there is a high level of tolerance for corruption in the country.

“And, they don’t see it as a very scandalous and shocking development as it used to be in the past. We should begin to train the youth and even the old on how to develop this anti-corruption antigen,” he said.

He explained that the validation meeting was for a national survey that was carried out in 2022 which was called the Nigerian Corruption Index (NCI).

According to him, the NCI is to survey the extent of grand corruption in Nigeria, to look at the various sectors that are mostly affected by corruption as well as overall Nigerian thought in corruption.

He said the NCI focused on corruption in high places, especially the three arms of government as well as the private sector.

He noted that there had been other surveys on corruption by the National Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime which were largely based on perception devoted to identifying the problem relating to petty corruption.


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He said: “The difference in what we are doing is that we are surveying the impact of the effect of grand corruption and we are also looking at it from the perspective of different sectors of society, the legislature, the executive, the judiciary, as well as the sub-national government.

“So, the thinking that it is better for us to talk about grand corruption because of the greatest impact on living conditions of Nigerians when policemen collect bribes on the roadside – that has effects, but not as much as somebody stealing N109 billion.

”So, we want to weigh the impact of such on society, how it differs from one sector to the other, and the ultimate objective is also to ensure that we are able to advise the government on policies that should be put in place in order to develop anti-corruption initiatives and interventions.”


Roles of private sector

He expressed concerns on the findings of the NCI which discovered that people had trivialised corruption, and that the private sector fuelled corrupt practices in the public sector.

“One of the things we found out is that people have built the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility fraudulently, they have used it to disguise corruption to also disguise the perpetration of corruption between the private and public sector.

“What I mean by that, private companies sometimes bring out the concept of corporate social responsibility as real corporate social responsibility, when what it is, is actually perpetuating corruption by giving officials bribes and even equipment.

“Some get cars bought for them and all of it we found out in the course of our survey. So, the government has to take a look at that. And purge it of all those impunity.”


Government action

He said there was the need for the government to look to legislative oversights sometimes used as a tool and channel for corruption.

“There is need for the government to purge the legislate oversight of a tendency by some people to also use it to take money from both the private and public sector.

“Some in the survey claimed that they sponsored trips for legislative oversights, which should not be, because the government made provision for that. Tjat has to be addressed.

“And lastly, the overall thing that was observed is that corruption has become so pervasive that we need to embark on a change of attitude, change of mindset and change of behavior,” he said.


The NCI project

Elijah Okebukola, a.profrssor and Lead researcher on the project Nigeria Corruption Index (NCI), noted that what the index did was that it measured corruption at different levels.

He said that their findings revealed that there was a high level of corruption at virtually every sphere of the sectors across Nigeria’s three arms of government.

“We have found that there is a high level of corruption at virtually every sphere of sectors in the country, in every level of government in all the spheres what index does is that it measures corruption at different levels,” he said.

The Secretary of the commission, Mr Clifford Oparaodu, represented by the Director of Legal, Henry Emorie, said that NCI was a tool aimed at helping the commission to better understand the fight grand corruption in the country.

Mr Oparaodu noted that everybody was experiencing the pervasive impact of corruption, which described corruption as a cankerworm that had insidiously woven its way into the fabric of the society, causing immeasurable damage to the nation.

While noting that the meeting would help to shed light on the area of concern as highlighted in the NCI data, he called for collective efforts to fight corruption in government and in the private sector.

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We know already and that’s why Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world

Worthless EFCC is aware of this but the only thing they are interested is how to get more power to harass the majority masses that are already deprived of their Gods given rights to good life

Na today! ICPC EFCC NFIU they are all corrupt.

We all know this.

Even the Citizens are highly corrupt!!! Go the schools, churches, mosques and offices, everybody one cash-out!!

We know already, that is how Tinubu became president

Damnnn niggar
Almost everyone in Nigeria are corrupt! Biased, tribalistic and sentimental
That is what is killing Nigeria


We are not really angry about the bad government and corruption in Nigeria we are just pretending to be angry because the government in power is not from our tribe or religion

After what we went through in the 8 years of Buhari administration knowing fully well that tinubu brought upon us that Buhari's administration and he is part of it

Yet he got millions of vote this is to tell you who we are as Nigerians we are tribalistic and have religion sentiments hidden in us

Ok

Including the ICPC..very funny country

Pen in the hand of corrupt judges can set a whole nation on fire. May the good Lord help our dear country and give us faithful judges and law abiding citizens

Untill citizens rise against this three arms of government this country will remain a shadow of itself.

Corruption is now viewed as a norm in this country across all sectors

terrible

Corruption is everywhere in Nigeria since God knows when

Many people complaining about Corruption are not benefiting from it

But APC made it glaring to the point that someone said go to court after blatant rigging but they already know what's up

And the grand master of corruption is at the top

Even the ICPC is a terribly corrupt organization but theirs is done codedly

Those people labelling the politicians as corrupt are still the ones calling Pitobi the agulu jesus to save Nigeria. As if Pitobi is not a politician. In fact, he is clueless and the most corrupt out of the 3 major presidential candidates in the last election.

babyfaceafrica:
Even the Citizens are highly corrupt!!! Go the schools, churches, mosques and offices, everybody one cash-out!!

That means that we should all stop blaming tinubu because most Nigeria if given the opportunity will do worst.

Corruption runs through every level of the Nigerian government. Most noticable from the time this Party that promised to eradicate corruption came into power in 2015! From contract fraud at the top through election fraud, to petty bribery, money laundering schemes, koro-koro embezzlement, and seizing salaries from ghost workers, it is safe to estimate that corruption within the Nigerian state apparatus costs this nation billions of dollars annually more than subsidy ever could! The interesting thing about the index is that it doesn't just consider the leaders and govt officials alone, but also includes the tolerance level of the citizens to corruption! That very poor score also captures the number of us that trivialize and accept the criminality in the conduct of govt business. In other words, we're our own problem!!

Stale gist.

Nigeria is full of evil creatures that just want to exploit every avenue to make money at the expense of others.

This is what happen when we elevate and worship money above good character values , selflessness, compassion etc. Having all these good characters and traits in Nigeria is seen as being stupid in Nigeria and any one with it will be shame, bully and verbally abused, but people want Nigeria to be better without all these good human values.

Even the fake religion and religious leaders that suppose to be the role model for positive values and good characters are the one promoting the pervasive and toxic culture of only valuing money above every thing else especially Christian leaders, they don't care where the money come from as long as you pay your tithes and contribute heavily to their ministry many of them will even broke shame and abuse poor people when what most of them survive on are donations from the same poor people.




The reason why Europeans and white people can still advance in so many aspects of life is also because their focus is not only on making money they care about so much than that, like having compassion, empathy , being kind etc. They can cancel you in the west for mistreating animal , acting rudely to people or mistreating people but here in Nigeria we only value money making, as long as you are rich you can get away with most things even murder.

Nigeria will still remain the same and never develop if will still continue the culture of only worshipping money and those with money, even if the President of America, China, Japan, Germany and Italy come to Nigeria to lead for 4 years. Nigeria will still remain the same , many Nigerians lack empathy and compassion and are very selfish, they only care about themselves and don't mind exploiting others for money when those people become leaders in the future of course they are going to continue to do what get them there, steal, exploit and loot as much as possible for their families and cronies.

We had an opportunity to cut down corruption with Peter OBI but agbadoriams said they prefer a criminal. So be it

ICPC is corrupt too

just2endowed:


That means that we should all stop blaming tinubu because most Nigeria if given the opportunity will do worst.

If the Head is corrupt, every part of the body will follow suit.

If I'm not corrupt, those working under me will be afraid and they know I won't take rubbish cos the bucks rest on my table. And it will gradually trickle down to my ministers and heads of parastatals. The ripple effect will be unmatched.

Akwamkpuruamu:
We had an opportunity to cut down corruption with Peter OBI but agbadoriams said they prefer a criminal. So be it

Well, Peter Obi lost because he is a crook who has a criminal agenda. How can a thief clean a corrupt system?


God knew his plans which was why he struggled to finish 3rd.

Noted.