Interrogating the consequences of political corruption on Nigeria’s development, and the way forward

Abstract

This paper interrogates the consequences of political corruption on Nigeria’s Development and provides the way forward. Corruption is any form or act of dishonesty perpetuated by the individual(s) to weaken a legitimate institution or process and this has direct consequences on development. The paper argues that Political Corruption which is an act of dishonesty perpetuated by Politicians either elected, selected and or appointed is inimical to the growth and development of Nigeria. The method of Data Collection employed in this paper strictly concerns the design and the method of Data Collection. The explanatory design was used in this paper to rely on document evidence to prove the injury caused by political corruption and the secondary method of data collection was used. The choice of this is to reduce the temptation of respondents not willing to give information due to the sensitive nature of the topic under review, no doubt political corruption has been proven to have a very dangerous consequence against Nigeria’s development. Based on this the paper by providing a way forward, suggested among others that the Nigerian people need to be educated because it is political only through education Nigerians can have a grasp of the activities of Nigerian politicians