A new research has showed that the issue of vote buying has become a national trend with one out of every five Nigerians involved in the practice.
A research conducted by United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes, UNODC indicated that vote-buying is prevalent in all geo-political zones of the country in the last three years.
The National consultant of UNODC, Adebusuyi Adeniran presented the report at the 17th Anti-corruption Situation Room, organised in Lagos by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA Resource Centre, in collaboration with MacArthur Foundation and Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, PTCIJ.
The study, titled: ‘Corruption Trends in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2nd Survey on Bribery and Other Forms of Corruption in the Public Sector’, also said bribery in Nigeria is less prevalent in 2019 than it was in 2016, decreasing from 32 percent to 30.2 percent.
It also discovered that the prevalence of bribery may have decreased but the frequency of bribe-paying has not.
