CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Onyeukwu, Agwara John |
|---|---|
| Title | Fighting Corruption in Nigeria: How Efficient National Integrity Systems Can Enhance the Effectiveness of Anticorruption Agencies |
| Summary | The usual response for most anticorruption reform minded governments whether or not they sincerely wish to fight corruption has been to set up new anticorruption agencies with powers going up a notch from what was on the ground before their tenure. This propensity to assume that new anticorruption institutions is so important to the global fight against corruption is usually as a result of prompting from international development agencies and multilateral institutions like the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). In this Policy Paper, it is argue that rather than the over fixation on anticorruption agencies that there is need to consider building efficient national integrity systems first or alongside the agencies. The argument is predicated on Nigeria’s experiences with the establishment of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) in 2000 and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2003/2004. While both especially the EFCC, impacted on the overall exposure of corruption, they easily lost momentum to sustain the fight because the national integrity systems remain weak and unable to provide the needed push for the effectiveness of the agencies. It concludes that the Nigerian state has weak integrity systems that cannot sustain the work of the anticorruption agencies and recommends practical policy solutions that include assuring the independence of the anticorruption agencies, the institutionalisation of a freedom of information regime, the firming up of disincentives for corruption by multinational companies and their local collaborators and, the assurance of rule of law in the work of the agencies. |
| Supervisor | Professor Agnes Batory |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/onyeukwu_agwara.pdf |
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