Using Specialised Anti-Corruption Agencies to Combat Pervasive Corruption in Nigeria: A Critical Review of the ICPC and EFCC

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African Journal of Legal Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-14 DOI:10.1163/17087384-12340050

L. Abdulrauf

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Abstract

The use of specialised anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) to combat corruption is increasingly popular among African countries. This is no surprise considering the successes these agencies have recorded elsewhere in the world, on the strength of which they have been described as ‘the most innovative feature of the anti-corruption movement of the last two decades’. Yet while ACAs have been successful in other parts of the world, the same cannot be said of those in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular. Even with two ACAs – the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – corruption continues to soar in the country, making it necessary to examine the flaws of Nigeria’s ACAs. Focusing on a number of key characteristics of ACAs, this article analyses the role of the ICPC and EFCC in combating corruption in Nigeria. The main question the article seeks to answer is why corruption should be on the increase despite the fact that two specialised ACAs have been in existence for close to two decades.

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利用专门的反腐败机构打击尼日利亚普遍存在的腐败:对ICPC和EFCC的批判性审查

利用专门的反腐败机构(ACAs)来打击腐败在非洲国家中日益流行。考虑到这些机构在世界其他地方取得的成功，这并不奇怪，它们被描述为“过去二十年来反腐败运动中最具创新性的特征”。然而，尽管ACAs在世界其他地区取得了成功，但在非洲，特别是尼日利亚，却并非如此。即使有两个ACAs——独立腐败行为和其他相关犯罪委员会(ICPC)和经济和金融犯罪委员会(EFCC)——该国的腐败现象仍在飙升，因此有必要审查尼日利亚ACAs的缺陷。本文着眼于ACAs的一些关键特征，分析了ICPC和EFCC在尼日利亚打击腐败方面的作用。这篇文章试图回答的主要问题是，尽管两个专门的ACAs已经存在了近20年，但为什么腐败还在增加。

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期刊介绍： The African Journal of Legal Studies (AJLS) is a peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary academic journal focusing on human rights and rule of law issues in Africa as analyzed by lawyers, economists, political scientists and others drawn from throughout the continent and the world. The journal, which was established by the Africa Law Institute and is now co-published in collaboration with Brill | Nijhoff, aims to serve as the leading forum for the thoughtful and scholarly engagement of a broad range of complex issues at the intersection of law, public policy and social change in Africa. AJLS places emphasis on presenting a diversity of perspectives on fundamental, long-term, systemic problems of human rights and governance, as well as emerging issues, and possible solutions to them. Towards this end, AJLS encourages critical reflections that are based on empirical observations and experience as well as theoretical and multi-disciplinary approaches.