Plus, the judge currently in charge of handling corruption cases against public officials in Nigeria has also been accused of corruption , in court filings, according to local media. Perhaps Nigeria can learn from other nations that have faced similar problems.
One shudders to think what would have happened to the officials that blamed animals for missing funds if they were in China. These offences are trivial compared to the much larger sums and far graver offences that Nigerian public office holders have been accused of. Nigerians frequently wake to new allegations of corruption that involve vast sums of money.
Other nations that have improved their GDP per capita and the welfare of their citizens by cracking down on corruption offer hope. The lesson of using stringent anti-corruption laws and empowering anti-corruption institutions can be learnt from Singapore and South Korea.
The lesson of using e-government and citizen involvement to curb corruption can also be learnt from Singapore and many central and eastern European countries. The effect of a strong political will in the fight against corruption has been seen in Qatar and the UAE. Problems persist, but Transparency International credits them with a higher ranking on its index this year. And the effect of external pressure in tackling corruption can be learnt from countries that had to improve their corruption indices to meet the requirements for accession into the EU.
The fact that a number of countries are taking effective strides to tackle corruption makes the strange phenomena of animals being blamed for missing funds in Nigeria even more galling. No mosque vandalised, no rape or death in Tripura; social media reports fake: MHA. Good yield: Domestic natural gas output rises; In the pipeline: Work on to harmonise local standards for 5G.
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Indeed, many problems are the direct result of African regimes that enrich themselves from donor money and the natural resources of Africa. But it is a distortion to view these problems as simply "African" matters. A major contributing factor is the African regimes' partners in the West. It is important to have a proper perspective on the root cause of bad governance and corruption. Corruption is not a characteristic of Africa, rather it is a widespread problem of the greed which is a feature of capitalist society.
And, corruption is not restricted to Africa. In the Middle East, the dictatorial regimes that oppress the Arab people do so with the complicity of the US and European governments.
Let's not forget that it is in the West that we have witnessed some of the worst cases of corruption - cases that involve some of the very multinationals that were previously used as models of success. The example of Halliburton and Iraq may be the best known, but it is merely the tip of the iceberg.
And, surely, any illusion in the West as an example of democracy and good governance was also shattered with the electoral fraud in Florida in the US presidential election.
In some cases, corruption in Africa is directly linked to Western governments and companies, which found nothing wrong with buying and bribing their way through the bureaucratic apparatus of the African elite to win tenders and secure big profits.
In Lesotho, one of the poorest countries, a French multinational is facing charges for bribing officials to win a tender to construct a dam. Recently Biwater, a British company, was thrown out by the Tanzanian government, which claimed that the company had made less than half the promised investment in privatised water.
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