CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
Nigeria has become a country
playing host to the victory of wrong over light, falsehood over the truth and
supremacy of personal irresponsibility over fundamental values. It is a country
perpetuating a policy that fails to value human life and cherish human beings
above material possession, power and pleasures; it is a place where men and
women of honour, experience, credibility and self-consciousness have been cut
their prime for daring to talk. It is a place where crooks are not protected by
the powers that be and where leaders are not determined by the citizens. Votes
without doubt, Nigeria
is breeding fraud of corruption.
For
a Nigerian, it is quite disheartening to note that to a foreigner, the mere
mention of Nigeria confuses
up the thought of corruption, or is it that corruption remains them of Nigeria.
Whichever angle one look at the simple point is that Nigeria has become almost
interchangeable with the vicious word “corruption”.
However,
as one person noted, nothing is so bad that something good cannot come from it
the truth of those words can be seen in the activities of some honest,
conscientious and positive goal oriented individuals as well as corporate
bodies who are bent on redeeming the tainted image of Nigeria.
The
government on its part set up a corruption checking commission to help in
pruning down irregularities in government and public offices. And with the aid
of the mass media of communication, the proceedings and going on are being
carried wide for the participation of the entire citizenry yes, the mass media
are brought into focus because of the indispensable part they play or are meant
to play. The mass media which include musically the Television, Radio,
Newspaper, Magazine and internet are the means through which information are
disseminated and communication is done with a wide anonymous heterogeneous and
diversified individuals and group simultaneously. Because of this far ability,
journalists are expected now and then to use them in promoting national unity
and development in economic, social, political and educational; spheres. They
have also been found to be very effective in influencing people’s opinions and
ideas on government activities. Thus the mass media have been employed in
propagating programmes that are geared towards righting the wrong in a given
society.
Nevertheless, in a country like ones where the
government put so much emphasis in the fight against corruption with nothing to
show for it such that the globally respected “transparency International” has
consistently rated Nigeria either as the most corrupt country
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