PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF ECONOMIC FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC) IN CURBING CORRUPTION

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ABSTRACT

The major objective of (EFCC) Economic Financial Crime Commission is the issue of upsurge of corruption in Nigeria. Nigeria law enforcement agency fight against financial crime such as Fraud (419) and money laundry the research examined the impact of (EFCC) the pressing of resolved problem facing Nigeria is corruption practice among the leaders.
As a case study itâ€™s also examined the challenges of corruption as a development institution and legal change. Political corruptions I the abuse of entrusted power by political leaders for private gain and take user of illent fund to the sale of appointment and abuse or state resources. Not all are illegal, legal donation to political parties usually abuse the office such as embezzlement.
The questionnaire, research the design used to collect data report from the people of Ikeja how Nigeria society establish various anti-corruption bodies to cubit corruption with a positive result through the use of (EFCC) to achieve criticized fact that arrest persecutor.
EFCC operation is antithetical to the ideal norm and value of democracy. EFCC in combating corruption as a necessary step to consolidate political leader in Nigeria by the way extension. Guiding the hypothesis of the research, the consolidation of democracy and constitution measure and process against political corruption as an act committed by public offices goes beyond the issue of receive and giving bribe alone. Its also law makers who receives Ghana-must-go bags of Naira to foreign bank account significant relations political corruption, cripple and violates which accentual the major treats to the sustainability of political corruption has even made the issue more complex.
A careful examination of the nature of operation and activities of the agency reveals that EFCC instead of lawfully addressing the political corruption in Nigeria has become a very powerful and vital weapons in the hands of presidency and ruling party to black mal harass and intimidate political foes in other words the anti corruption agency (EFCC) has become a patient of the very disease it has set out to be cure by EFCC has become a treat to the politician.

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The issue of the upsurge of corruption in Nigeria undoubtedly remains one of the most pressing and unresolved problems facing Nigeria as a nation. The prevalence of corruption and corrupt practices in Nigeria particularly among the leaders is absolutely deplorable and troubling, considering its astronomical damages on Nigerian polity (Dike, 2002). The peril of corruption could be felt from the slow movement of files in offices, police perennial extortion points along our major and indoor roads and tollgates, slow traffics on the highways, port congestion, queues at the passport offices and gas stations, ghost workers syndrome and election irregularities. The chaos caused by corruption in this country could be recognized even by a newly born baby (Obayelu, 2007). The funds allocated for their welfare disappear into the thin air. Thus, it is believed by many that in the society that corruption is a bane of Nigeria.
Consequently, the issue keeps reoccurring in every academic and informal discussion in Nigeria. Some writers on corruption argued that corruption is endemic in all governments, and that it is not peculiar to any continent, region, ethnic and racial group. In a statement made by Dike, (2002) and Obuah (2004), corruption cuts across faiths, religious denominations and political systems affecting both the young, the old, man and woman alike.
Corruption is found in democratic and dictatorial politics; feudal, capitalist and socialist economies. Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures are equally bedeviled by corruption. Corruption and corrupt practices did not begin today; the history is as old as the world history. Ancient civilizations have traces of widespread illegality and corruption (Lotterman, 2002). Thus, corruption has been ubiquitous in complex societies from ancient Egypt, Israel, Rome, and Greece down to the present (Lipset and Lenz, 2000). This does not, however, mean that the magnitude of corruption is equal in every society; some countries are more corrupt than others.
Since corruption is not new, and since it is a global phenomenon, it is not peculiar to Nigeria. However, corruption is pandemic in Nigeria as well as in several other African, and Asian nations; the leaders as well as the followers are equally corrupt. Consequently, it has defied all the necessary medicines. It is however, against the background of this study that an attempt is being made to investigate the public perception of the role of EFCC in curbing corruption among political leaders in Ikeja local government area of Lagos State.