Thursday, 17 August 2017

UN Stated Nigeria Police, Judges Are Highest Bribe-Takers

The Guardian NewspaperVanguard newspaper
According to The Guardian, the reports which covers between June 2015 and May 2016, law enforcement agencies and the judiciary are the highest receivers of bribes.
The Nation reports that A tighter security ring has been thrown around Ibrahim Magu and key officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after a gun attack on its Abuja office.
Also being protected are the EFCC Acting Chairman’s mother, who lives in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

The new security measures were taken after some gunmen yesterday attacked the agency’s office in Abuja. The annex office is where high-profile suspects are investigated.
This Day reports that an estimated N400 billion, or the equivalent of $4.6 billion in purchasing power parity (PPP), representing 39 per cent of the combined federal and state education budgets in 2016, is paid out as bribes to public officials in Nigeria annually, a new report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), has revealed.

The National Corruption Report, which covered the period between June 2015 and May 2016 also showed that almost a third of Nigerian adults (32.3 per cent) who had contact with public officials between June 2015 and May 2016 had to pay, or were requested to pay a bribe to such public officials.
 Vanguard newspaper


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