CORRUPTION: THE STUMBLING-BLOCK OF OUR DEMOCRACY

Raji Rafiu Boye

Department of Political Science

Bukar Abba Ibrahim University, Damaturu, Nigeria

e-mail:brajirafiu@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Nigeria has undergone close to two decade of military authoritarian rule from 1983 thus, clamoring for return to democratic rule has hasten, the enthusiasm that greeted the 1999 handover of government to a democratically elected civilian government was very high. But immediately after the dust has settled the differences between a military dictator and the democratic government became blurred, the citizens were denied the dividend of democracy they so much clamored for. Thus the study tried to unravel the extent to which corruption has became the stumbling block to profitable democratic governance in Nigeria. And prescribe some way out of the vicious circle.