Gift-Giving, Anti-Bribery Laws and the Nigerian Constitution: Matters Arising
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Date
2014
Authors
BELLO, AKEEM
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Cambridge University Press
Abstract
The article examines the culture of gift-giving against the background of anti-bribery laws, which preclude gift-giving in certain contexts, and the Code of Conduct for Public Officers which allows gift-giving in other contexts. It identifies what is wrong with bribery and uses this to distinguish between bribery and socio-cultural gift-giving practices in Nigeria. The article finds that the Code of Conduct for Public Officers, which allows public officers to receive gifts from relatives and personal friends on occasions recognized by custom, dilutes the constitutional objective to eradicate corruption and recommends their removal
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mental element of bribery, wrong in bribery, Nigeria , Gift giving and bribery , reciprocal gifts , cultural perspective of bribery Nigeria , religious perspective of bribery , culture of gift giving , Muslim view of gifts and bribes , Christian view of gifts and bribes , Gift giving and Nigerian Constitution , gift giving and Nigerian antibribery laws , Gift-giving with remote possibility of bribery , Gift-giving with strong possibility of bribery , GIFT-GIVING AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON CORRUPTION , Bribery in the public sector
Citation
Journal of African Law, 58(2), pp. 278-302.