COMPARATIVE APPRAISAL OF ANTICORRUPTION LAWS: LESSONS NIGERIA CAN LEARN FROM NORWAY, UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES’ ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGIES
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Date
2020-07
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International Journal of Management (IJM
Abstract
The study undertakes comparative legal and policy analyses of corruption in the
upstream petroleum sectors of Nigeria, Norway, the United States, and the United
Kingdom. These countries were selected as case studies because they are rich in
petroleum resources with favourable Transparency International annual rankings and
due to their status as relatively advanced petroleum jurisdictions with stringent anticorruption
laws. The study is a doctrinal legal research that adopts a point-by-point
comparative approach with library research method. The study reveals that
corruption thrives on the weak enforcement of anti-corruption laws and lack of
political will in providing effective regulatory intervention. In conclusion, the study
finds that anti-corruption agencies in the selected countries are more effective
because of their governments’ political will to combat corruption, as well as adequate
or sufficient budgets and the strict enforcement of their laws in contrast to Nigeria. It
recommends among other reforms, soft law approach and strict enforcement of anticorruption
laws for transparency in the upstream petroleum sector of Nigeria.
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Staff Publication
Keywords
Corruption,, Strategies,, Upstream Petroleum Sector,, Transparency
Citation
OLUJOBI, Olusola Joshua and OLUJOBI, Oluwatosin Michael, Comparative Appraisal of Anti-Corruption Laws: Lessons Nigeria Can Learn from Norway, United Kingdom and United States’ Anti-Corruption Strategies, International Journal of Management, 11(7), 2020, pp. 338-347. http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/issues.asp?JType=IJM&VType=11&IType=7