DISCUSSION PAPER Anti-Corruption was the declared number one policy aim of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. The success of this policy was‚ however‚ for various reasons not too impressive. Obasanjo ’s successor‚ President Umaru Yar ’Adua came to power promising to reform and continue the anti-corruption policy. But while the anti-graft agencies continued to arrest and arraign more individuals‚ including highly placed officials‚ for corruption‚ the general public expressed the view that the
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are talking about corruption. So corruption means the misuse of power for own gain. Corruption affects adversely country’s economic development and achievement of developing goals. It promotes in efficiency in utilization of resources‚ distorts the markets and compromises quality. We know that corruption will not disappear from society. Our efforts are meant to restrict corruption and to protect as much as possible the poor and weak in our societies. In the end all corruption costs are paid by
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Role of Media in Combating Corruption In our democratic system we have the role of three important organs i.e. Legislature‚ Judiciary and Executive. These organs of state are assigned with different roles viz. making laws‚ deciding legality or illegality and Implementation of laws respectively. These three arms of the democracy are given their respective areas to work on and with the sole objective of service of people or welfare of the common masses. The relative dependence or independence of
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy corruption is defined as the abuse of power by a public official for private gain. Police corruption is the abuse of power by a police officer for their own personal gain. Police officers become corrupt mainly for monetary gain because most feel that police officers do not make enough money and they want to make more. Police corruption can be costly to society and it can even violate the rights of society. Police corruption can show favoritism to some and unfairness
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THE OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION |THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness | | SOME BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT The Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption The Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption established according to the Resolution 1039/2006/NQ-UBTVQH of August‚ 28‚ 2006‚ of the Standing Committee of the XIst National Assembly of The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. I. Position and functions of the
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Chapter two: Research Methodology: 2.1 Introduction: We conduct a survey to document the perceptions of slum dwellers about causes of poverty and petty corruption and examine how fate affects poverty and other related variables. Since no one has funded this research‚ it was not possible for us financially to visit all these slum areas. Moreover‚ almost all of these slum areas have very similar structure. Once you are inside the area you cannot recognize in which slum area you are in. We have
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Corruption is a common occurrence in prisons in this country and around the world. The reason for this is because prison environments provide for the combination of individuals with lost rights and individuals with full power‚ plus minimal monitoring. This equation produces inevitable corruption. The antidote to corruption is exposition. Corruption happens under the cloak of darkness. Once light is shed on the wrong-doing‚ a sort of purification process occurs and wrongs are righted. Hence‚ the
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RIGHT TO INFORMATION (RTI) The Right to Information Act (RTI) is an Act of the Parliament of India "to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens" and replaces the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act‚ 2002. The Act applies to all States and Union Territories of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Under the provisions of the Act‚ any citizen may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which
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Corruption The first question regarding corruption is What is Corruption ? The answer is very simple to tell but is extremely complecated to understand. Technically corruption is any kind of act in self interset to use public services illegally. Now there are several situations when we don’t follow the law but that is not corruption if it is in public interset. Like if you give five extra minute to a sick student in exam then it is against rule but is not a kind of corruption but if you give
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The term “police corruption” brings shame and public skepticism about our front line of defense against the criminal element. While the corrupt may be only a small number of officers‚ the idea or actions of the few effect the entire institution of law enforcement throughout the country. Police corruption is not a new concept. We start to see corruption from the modern police force. Corruption is not something that used to happen. Today throughout the United States police departments have been hit
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