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December 23, 2019
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.
Aresearch conducted by United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes, UNODCindicated that vote-buying is prevalent in all geo-political zones of thecountry in the last three years.
TheNational consultant of UNODC, Adebusuyi Adeniran presented the report at the 17 Anti-corruptionSituation Room, organised in Lagos by the Human and Environmental DevelopmentAgenda, HEDA Resource Centre, in collaboration with MacArthur Foundationand Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, PTCIJ.
Thestudy, titled: ‘Corruption Trends in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2nd Survey
on Bribery and Other Forms of Corruption in the Public Sector’, also saidbribery in Nigeria is less prevalent in 2019 than it was in 2016, decreasingfrom 32 percent to 30.2 percent.
Italso discovered that the prevalence of bribery may have decreased but thefrequency of bribe-paying has not.