Abstract:
This study focused on How Corruption Works in the Ekeremor Local Government Area Since it Creation. The study is essentially concerned that corruption has become the talk of the day. The consequences of corruption is quite overwhelming as infrastructural development has become a theoretical analysis on the aims of local government establishment. Poverty in the rural areas is no more news but a reality, where few privileged personnel used the opportunity to enrich themselves and their relatives. Worst still, pervasion of public materials and funds to private accounts is no longer a crime but a privilege for self enrichment. The study also intended to unveil the causes, structure, forms, implications of corruption and possible mechanism for curbing it entirely. By so doing, it is hoped that it might help in reassessing, redirection as well as reorientation of the minds of both the entire people and the officials towards becoming a better Nigerians. The study centered on Marxian political paradigm; that argues that corruption is a consequence of peripheral capitalist development system rather than people’s consciousness determining their well-being, it is the way society organizes production and exchange of goods and services that determine their material conditions. The study applied primary and secondary method of data collection and the descriptive method of data analysis. Based on these, we recommended the following: reintroduction of ethics and civics into the curriculum, a need for community/police relations and exposure of corrupt officers and practices.
