Tackling corruptive behaviours among electorates in Nigerian politics: perception of Kwara Central people of Nigeria
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2018
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Social Studies Association of Nigeria SOSSAN
Abstract
This paper investigated the views of people on ways of addressing corruptive behaviour of electorates in Kwara Central Nigeria. A descriptive method of the survey type has been adopted to a total of 150 people who were purposively and randomly sampled.The researchers designed questionnaire tagged“perceived factors and measures of tackling corruptive behaviour among electorates in Nigeria was used to obtain respondents perception.The result showed that electoral body deficiency is largely responsible for corrupt behaviour of electorates in the society and the average mean score of 3.28 indicating that all factors responsible for electorates corrupt behaviour in Nigeria as viewed by respondents in this study are equally significant. In addition the outcome of this study revealed effective judicial system as fundamental basis to curb electorates’ corruption and average mean score of
3.28 of all mean of items on ways to tackle electorates corruptive behaviour indicates that all other stated measures to tackle electorate corruption are very significant as well. Based on these findings,researcher made the
following recommendations that National Electoral Independent Commission should actually be independent of government control; secondly, effective economic policy needs to be vigorously pursued by government to provide better condition of living for electorates, thirdly, good governance should be watch words for all three tiers of government and their administration should be corruption freefinally;judges and lawyers should diligently handle political or election tribunal cases without favour or preferential treatment because of inducement
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Electorates, Corruptive behaviour, Factors and Tackling
Citation
9. Rasheed, Sarkinfada & Olaniyan, (2018). Tackling corruptive behaviors among electorates in Nigerian politics: Perception of Kwara Central people of Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Social Studies.. Vol. XX (1). 277-289