Military-Inspired Anti-Bureaucratic Corruption Campaigns: An Appraisal of Niger's Experience

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Title:	Military-Inspired Anti-Bureaucratic Corruption Campaigns: An Appraisal of Niger's Experience
Author:	Amuwo, 'Kunle
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:	24
Issue:	2
Pages:	285-301
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Niger
Subjects:	corruption Politics and Government Military, Defense and Arms Law, Human Rights and Violence
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/160694
Abstract:	Among the reasons advanced to justify the coup d'état of 15 April 1974 in Niger was the 'corruption' of President Hamani Diori and, particularly, his close entourage. The phenomenon of venality in the public realm, and the military reaction to this, remains one of the dominant issues in General Kountché's 12-year-old regime. An analysis of the various mechanisms used so far by the military administration in combatting corruption in the public sector - the 'moralisation' crusade, symbols and slogans, economic and financial measures, the President's security and intelligence network, the President's security and intelligence network, the President's personality - indicates that there continues to be a wide gap between proclamations of intentions and concrete results. In spite of an overt firmness and resoluteness, it appears that General Kountché has not been winning the anticorruption battle against his own men, let alone elsewhere in the administration. Notes, ref.