ABSTRACT
This
research work has investigated the media as an instrument in eradicating
corruption. Using Obasanjo’s anti-corruption crusade (a case study of the Nigeria television authority)
The
objectives of this work among other thing was to find out the problems that
follow corruption and also to find out solution to the problems 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 include the journals, magazines, textbook periodical news
papers lecturers, seminars. Response from the respondents show that the major
problem in Nigeria is corruption like illegal ward of contracts, lobbying
syndrome, indiscipline like brown envelope, godfathers, unpatriotic
pracfraudster bad name and bloody
practices etc. which promoted president Obascanjo to launch crusade
against corruption after the military regime brining them to book for offence
and punishment due for any offence committed without fear on favour of personality whereby he used Nigeria
television authority for quick enhancement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Approval
page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of
contents
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the study
1.2
Statement of problem
1.3
Objective of the study
1.4
Significant of the study
1.5
Research questions
1.6
Research hypothesis
1.7
Definition of terms
1.8
Assumption
1.9
Limitation of the study
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF
LITERATURE
2.1
Sources of literature review
2.2
How have
2.3
What has the media done about review
2.4
Summary of literature review
2.5
Theoretical framework
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1
Research method
3.2
Research design
3.3
Measuring instrument
3.4
Data collection
3.5
Data analysis
3.6
Expected result
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Data analysis
4.1
Summary of results/ findings
4.2
Discussion
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1
Summary
5.2
Recommendation for further study
5.3
Suggestion for further research
Reference
Appendix
Questionnaires
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
It is
necessary to glorify the minds that made ventures to the establishment of media.
Media as a watch dog and the mirror of the nation perform crucial roles in the
society media educate entertain analyses interpret ,motivate, create avenue, to
failure and to success. Media as well monitor evaluate and correct al wrong
activities concerning human existence. It executive and recommends, encodes and
decodes and ensure feedback etc.
Media is
metaphoric when we termed it to be a watchdog of eh 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 printing or
criticizing a nation or society without
having in mind any channel of dissemination of his information whether good or
bad informational concern sense to the
target audience . It is therefore at this junction that journalist uses
media aid to bring 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 the are and how their
activities moves whether it encourages the audience or discourage them.
It was
through this mirror media the news that exposed the forgery certificate of
Alhaja Salisis Buhari which he did at the University of Toronto Canada . the
made president Obasanjo after taken over the government to launch crusade that
will redress what he saw in the mirror . this made Alhaja Salisu Buhari to be
brought down from his position of speaker of house representative
The media
educate the ignorant it teaches them from known to unknown without it was when
media publishes or air what people know that they will analyze 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
Nigerian media therefore exposes them, he evil operator of their evil deed and drag them down from the
success to failure through mentoring of their movement and activities and evaluating and correcting their wrongs by
disseminating it on air and preparing the audience to feedback recommending to
the government the punishment that the deserve for the issue of awareness to be
accomplished.
Furthermore,
in Nigeria society, the role of broadcasters and the broadcast media, as agents
of rural and motional development,, especially at the information
dissemination, watchdog level, is now generally recognized and accepted by
experts and policy maker alike. Also, a critical appraisal of the socio-economic
development of he people of he world indicates that the sits a spectrum of
levels of development of he people of the among he nation stake and that within
a given country there also exist a
spectrum of levels affluence poverty
Importantly
he development spectrum of the nations is demonstrably corrected with the
amount of natural resources, indigenous technology and political stability
whereas the affluence or poverty of
individual within a nation, may be
corrected with family background, ethnic origin, educational statement
etc. depending on the character of the nation in question. Nigeria as a typical
developing country to day has a citizenry with a multiplicity of ethnic groups,
language, dialects, rural patterns, religious beliefs, and traditional institutes
that lend to defy the best of intonations internal integration and development.
usually only a small percentage of the people are literate in nay language,
indigenous or foreign.
Meanwhile,
the national government the enlightened segments of the society are aware of
the need for wide spread education for both children and adults in order to
achieve prescribed goals in economic growth, health care, political and special
awareness, political stability, self reliance and nation identify, among other
things for national development.
From the
above points, broadcaster media is a powerful and effective instrument for
achieving these national goals, it has been recognized all over the world and
in Nigeria in particular as the role of
broadcast media. In national development according to ADSDI, Uyo in the
book the mass media and social change, he identified the functions performed by
the media of mass communication
especially broadcast media as , information, education, entertainment,
persuasion which he referred to fondly as the media pile- an acronym derived
from the four basic function,
Therefore
this study is an attempt to discover how media as an instrument for eradicating
corruption of Obasanjo’s anti—corruption crusade. A case study of NTA.
Since assuming
office in May, 1999 president Olusegun Obasanjo has never hidden his intention
to fight corruption which has permitted the social fabric of Nigeria from the
top to bottom.
In order to
raise that goal, he set up the independent corrupt practices and other related
offences commission, otherwise known as the
ICPC, handed by justice Mustapha Akanbi, a retired judge of the court of
appeal. But since then, the commission has remained a came dulk and toothless
building until recently. In what observes sees a departure from the past
and a renew vigor in the anti-graft
campaign the ICPC in early December imitated the arrest of prominent
politicians and former government officials. In one fell SWOAP a serving of
corrupt was fired over allegations of corrupt practices. not only was former
minister of labour and productively, Alhaji Hassani Akwanga sacked he was later arrested by security agencies for
involvement in a $214m scan in the Jinx national identity card schema being
handled by the minister of internal affairs. He was permanent secretary of that
ministry before retiring and being appointed a minister.
The ICPC is
currently prosecuting about sixty-two persons for various offense, these
include politicians, judges, academic and members of the commission is said to
have received over 942 petitions since inception out of which about 400 are
still being investigated,. Firstly ,in view of this study.
1.2
STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
The problem
of study is the effect of the media and instrument for eradicating corruption.
A case study of Nigeria television
authority inform of Obasanjo anti-corruption crusade. Opinion of the researcher
to see if there is any significant effect on media being a powerful instrument
to Obsanjo’s crusade against corruption. Truly, the has been series of
struggle to attain this objective’s
Similarly,
the legal philosophers and various notions of the nature, meaning and scope of
corruption. Today the struggle to bring to the public the notification of their
freedom from corruption by the media had been
respected attempt done by the media for its is the obligation of he
media to carry out government opinions, translate it and analyze it to layman’s
understanding.
Today, it
is a mater of a national and internal affairs or concern in that that the rule
of law has no meaning as some government as some government in African
countries are dictatorial in nature and operate above the law, thereby
something or action that above he law of its laud is a problem and that is the
statement of problem of corruption and Obsanjo crusade against instrument to
enforce awareness and motivates actions which was achieve a last.
For
instance late Abacha chose Bariabas Jabilla (Nick names Roger) as his killer
squad leader who carryout a lot of assassination for him therefore instead of
investing money on development be rather used the money to send segment Rogers
to North Kores to learn self defense and assassination and as well was given
asset to presidential jet and many carts of which was announced that Tell
magazine describe his appearance as lefty bearded Rogers who always poses a
deceptive look with his athletic physique and cherubic face who usually decked
in a special black Arab captain when on a mission to kill, al enemy of evil
like assassination of Kurdurat Abiloa late and other simply because of the
interview grange to her by the British broadcasting separation where she
exposed late Abacha she was killed because she vowed to fight Abachs’s
corruption to the last. She was killed
her husband Abiloa late won a free and fair election which was announced
on June 12.
Problem are
imminent in very aspect of human edeavour. As scholars researcher student are
know that the Nigeria nation as Bedeviled with so much corruption which has
hitherto been a constraint to national development. A category of corruption in
synomious with Militaries, politicians, some are caused by employer government
agencies, the common men, leader of thought the youths, the aged ad these are
the component that make up the federation. A sample of corruption which this
work tends to address is crime, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, cultism,
bribery and disobediences.
Therefore,
in a situation like this, as the powerful instrument for reradicating
corruption is at work but suffers in that there is no freedom of media
activates yet that does not stop the media from motivation and action, through
some personnel lost their lives in the process a good example is late Giwa
founder of Newswatch, who was assassinated.
1.3
OBJECTIVES FO THE STUDY
The
researcher intends at the end of this work to provide a lading solution of the
problem of corruption in Nigeria. It also intends to asses the Obasanjo
anti-corruption crusade to tell the public how far it has gone in trying to
eradicating corruption in the society it also tends to form a frame work or
basis for further research as far as corruption in concerned in Nigeria.
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The research work will go a long way toward using
the media to address the issue of corruption practices in Nigeria.
We must not
fail to welcome the constitution democracy, be it as benevolent ad it may be a
military regime still, falls short of the mark. It is a government that owes
its origin and authority to sheer force and not to the people. we would like to have a government that will owe its
origin and authority to the people and as well as give its accountability to
the people and have an air of change in mind when he did not account to his
people fine otherwise was promised by president Olusegun Obasanjo on the day of
the launching on 9th September, 1999 at Bayalsa state in yewe gua, he promised to be cooperation with
the staff and to work towards the upliftement of he standard of living of
the people manifestoes. With that will
be reduced and media will perform its roles effectively without hindrances
1.5
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.
Do media aid anti-corruption crusade
2.
To extent does anti-corruption crusade help to sustain
Nigeria democratic growth?
3.
To what extent ahs the ant-corruption crusade helped
in eradicating corruption
4.
To what extent had NTA gone about the anti- corruption
crusade?
1.6
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
Hi: The media aid anti-corruption crusade
Ho: The
media do not aid anti-corruption crusade
H2:
Anti-corruption crusade help to a great extent in sustaining democracy in
Nigeria
Ho:
Anti-corruption crusade does not in any way help to a great extent in
sustaining democracy in Nigeria
H3:
Corruption poses serious problem to democratic growth in Nigeria.
Ho:
Corruption does not poses serious problem to democratic growth in Nigeria.
H4: The
anti-corruption crusade has to a great extent helped in ridding Nigeria of
corrupt leaders
Ho: The
anti-corruption crusade has not in anyway
helped in ridding Nigeria of corrupt leaders
H5: NTA has
been an affective instrument in the anti corruption crusade
Ho: NTA has
not been an affective instrument in the
anti corruption crusade
1.7
CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
In order to made far adequate clarity of purpose and
presentation, such words will be defined in this section in accordance with the
usage That will be made of them. In dong so the author hope to present an ideal
aid towards the effective understanding of the day set up. Such worlds
explained include
Appraisal
Appraisal is the act of appraising valuation,
especially official valuation
Eradication
Is the process of pulling up by the root or destroy
thoroughly media
Media is usually with sign, mass communication
examples are television, radio. Media is a medium of exchange of idea is it a
channel by which messages or information and decoded to the final audience.
Corruption
Corruption as has been reviewed by oxford advanced
learns dictionary of current English as an immoral actions depraved ailment
dishonest through offering and accepting bribes impure through bloody practices
debased by errors or alternation falsifying of age, embezzlement of or illegal
passion of equitation of wealth
1.8
ASSUMPTION
In
following the investigation, the researcher made the following assumption NTA
Enugu is very active in championing anti- corruption crusade of government to
its staff.
NTA carries
programme aimd to create awareness to the public on the need for sanity in
public office among political office holder.
This study
will serve as platform for future researcher in this area
1.9
LIMITATION OF STUDY
In the course of this writing a lot of problems were
encountered as in adequate material. Easy assess to materials for this work
becomes difficult even in the school library, the ones been could not bring the
demand of he study in the course of this, I had to travel far in obtaining
materials that make this writing a reality.