The National Corruption Survey published by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown that Nigerians have spent about N400 billion on payment for bribe in one year.
According to the
report, almost one bribe is paid by every adult Nigerian per year by
combining the total number of people who paid a bribe to a public official.
“Almost a third of Nigerian
adults pay bribes when in contact with public officials Almost a third of
Nigerian adults (32.3 per cent) who had contact with a public official between
June 2015 and May 2016 had to pay or were requested to pay, a bribe to that
public official.
“The magnitude of public sector
bribery in Nigeria becomes even more palpable when factoring in the frequency
of those payments, as the majority of those who paid a bribe to a public
official did so more than once over the course of the year.”
Furthermore, it was disclosed
that bribe-payers in Nigeria pay an average of some six bribes in one year, or
roughly one bribe every two months.
“On average, almost one bribe is
paid by every adult Nigerian per year by combining the total number of people
who paid a bribe to a public official with the frequency of those payments, it
is estimated that a total of roughly 82.3 million bribes were paid in Nigeria
in the 12 months prior to the survey.
“This results in an average of
0.93 bribes paid per adult, or almost one bribe paid by every adult Nigerian
per year.”
Roughly 400 billion Nigerian
Naira spent on bribes each year Taking into account the fact that nine out of
every ten bribes paid to public officials in Nigeria are paid in cash and the
size of the payments made, it is estimated that the total amount of bribes paid
to public officials in Nigeria in the 12 months prior to the survey was around
400 billion Nigerian Naira (NGN), the equivalent of $4.6 billion in purchasing
power parity (PPP).
“This sum is equivalent to 39 per
cent of the combined federal and state education budgets in 2016.”
The survey also showed that the
private sector has a major role to play in Nigeria’s level of corruption.
The survey which claims that over
N400 billion was paid in bribe to public officials between June 2015 and June
2016 shows that the prevalence of bribery in the insurance sector is the
highest by 6 per cent.
According to the report, while
private schools are ranked 5.9 per cent, the wide spread presence of bribery is
3.7 per cent among doctors in a private hospital.
The survey ranks nurses as
responsible for 3.3 per cent of bribery in the private sector while 1.9 per
cent of bank officials take bribe with a prevalence rate of 2.1 per cent.
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