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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