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PERSISTENT RISE IN CORRUPT PRACTICES IN NIGERIA: THE IRONY OF FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN PRESIDENT BUHARI’S ADMINISTRATION (2015-2020)
Abstract
President Buhari came to power in the 2015 elections and one of his main campaign promises was to fight the corruption that was seen as rife in his predecessor’s administration. However, five years after, corruption still subsists as one of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria. In recent time, public attention has been drawn to the spectacles of corruption cases in Nigeria especially in the agencies of government. This has shown that moral values are fast diminishing among the people. As it were, integrity, honesty and dedication to duty have collapsed in the society and particularly among politicians, political office holders and government officials. The menace of corruption in Nigeria poses a great threat to the development of the country. Therefore, this paper assessed the trend of corruption under Buhari’s administration and the efforts made to tackle corruption in Nigeria from 2015 to 2020. The assessment was achieved through the adoption of the narrative-textual case study (NTCS) research method that sources the required data on the phenomenon of study from secondary sources like official reports, internet, online book, newspaper and journal publications. It was discovered that the Buhari’s administration has made some efforts in fighting corruption by introducing anticorruption measures, policies and legal frameworks such as the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS), Treasury Single Account (TAS), Whistleblowing Policy, Code of Conduct Bureau and Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative amongst others to fight against corruption. However, based on the evidence of increasing cases of corruption in recent time, these efforts seem not to have yielded positive results. Therefore the paper recommends among other things, that President Buhari should not be selective in his corruption fight rather he should tackle the menace of corruption holistically irrespective of political affiliations or ethnic affinity of those involved in corrupt acts.
Keywords: Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Buhari Administration, Nigeria