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This research work has investigated the media as an instrument in eradicating corruption using Obasanjo’s Anti-corruption Crusade (A case study of the federal Radio operation of Nigeria)
The objective of this work among other things was to find out the problems that follow corruption and also to find out solutions to the problem based upon which hypothesis were formulated.
The research work was carried out by using primary and secondary data like interview method, Questionnaire, personal observation and the review of related literature.
The literature reviewed includes the journals magazine, textbook periodical, Newspaper, lecturers, seminars. Response from the respondents show that the major problem in Nigeria is corruption like illegal award of contracts lobbying syndrome, indiscipline like brown envelop, god-fatherism, unpatriotic ailment, fraudster bad name and bloody practices etc. which prompted president Obasanjo to launch crusade against corruption after the military regime, bringing them to book for prosecuting and punishment due for any offence committed without fear or favour of personality whereby he used federal Radio corporation of Nigeria for quick enhancement. .
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Introduction
INTRODUCTION
BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY
It is necessary to glorify the minds that made ventures to the establishment of media arena. Media as a watchdog and the mirror of the nation perform crucial role in the society. Media educate, entertain, analyses, interpret, motivate, create awareness, create avenue, to failure and to success. Media as well monitors evaluate and correct all wrong activities concerning human existence. It executes and recommends encodes and decodes and ensures feedback etc.
Media is “metaphoric “ when we termed it to be a watchdog of the nation and as well the mirror through which the nation see and recognize itself. It is the importance of the media that place it to that position in that somebody cannot just get up and started praising or criticizing a nation or society without having in mind any channel of dissemination of his formation whether good or bad information all convey sense to the target audience. It is therefore at this junction that journalist uses media aid to bring to the nation what their society is like and how their government is like and how good or bad the personalities involved are like, then it is through this means that they will know what they are and how their activities moves, whether it encourages the audience or discourages them.
It was through this mirrow media “ The News that exposed the forgery certificate of Alhaji Sdisu Buhari which he did at the University of Toronto Canada. This made president Obasanjo after taken over the government to launch crusade that will redress what he saw in the Miro. This made Alhaji Salisu Buhari to be brought down from his position of speak House of Representatives.
The media educates the ignorant, it teachers them from known to unknown, in that it was when media publishes or airs what people know that they will analyze it to those who does not know. It was through media that people get to know what brought about the removal of Evans Ewerem from the position of senate president because of his falsification of age. The Nigeria media therefore exposes them, the evil operators of their evil deed and drag them down from the success to failure through monitoring of their movements and activities and evaluating and correcting their wrongs by disseminating it on air and preparing the audience to feedback and recommending to the government the punishment that they deserve for the issue of awareness to be accomplished.
Therefore this study is an attempt to discover how media as an instrument for eradicating corruption of Obasanjo anti-corruption crusade. A case study of FRCN.
Since assuming office in May 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo has never hidden his intention to fight corruption, which has permeated the social fabric of Nigeria from the top to bottom
In order to realize that goal, he set up the independent corrupt practices and other Related offence commission, otherwise known as the ICPC, headed by Justice Mustapha Akanbi, a retired judge of he court of Appeal.
But since then, the commission had remained a came duck and toothless bulldog until recently. In what observers see as a departure from the past and a renew vigour in the anit- graft campaign, the ICPC in earl December initiated the arrest of prominent publicans and former government officials. In one fell swoop a serving minister was fired over allegation of corrupt practices. Not only was former minister of labour and productivity, Alhaji Hassani Akwanaga sacked he was later arrested by security agencies for involvement in & 214m scam in the jinx National identity card scheme being handled by the minister of internal Affairs. He was the permanent secretary of that ministry before retiring adhering appointed a minister.
The ICPC is currently prosecuting about sixty-two persons for various offences, these of the commissions and company executives. The commission is said to have received over 942 petitions since inception, out of which about 400 are still being investigated.
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