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

Abstract

This paper is interrogating the consequencies of political corruption on Nigeria’s Development; the wayforward. Corruption is any form or act of dishonesty perpetuated by individual(s) to weaken a legitimate institution or process and this has a direct consequence(s) against development as development is both quantitative and qualitative transformation. Political Corruption which are those 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 employ in this paper strictly concerns to the design and the method of Data Collection. The explanatory design was used in this paper for the purpose of relying 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 that it has a very dangerous consequence against Nigeria’s and development base on this the paper by a way forward suggested among others that the Nigerian people need to be educated because it is only education that can provide literacy on the corrupt activities of Nigeria politicians.