TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL AND THE CHALLENGES OF CORRUPT PRACTICES IN NIGERIA 1993-1998.

CHAPTER ONE

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL, ORIGIN AND FUNCTION INTRODUCTION

In this chapter I will be looking at the background and history of Transparency international, why it was created, the philosophy of the movement and it’s proceedings. The organisation, their role, their main function and goals, financing and organisation and also history of corruption and it’s definitions.

BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL (TI).

Transparency international, briefly (TI), is a non-governmental organisation with seat, acting world-wide, in Berlin which engages itself in national and international people and economical corruption fight and raising the awareness of it. This includes, but not limited to political corruption, it publishes yearly its corruption perception index, a comparative listing of corruption worldwide. Transparency international were created in 1993 in Berlin friends from all over the world engaged by the former director of world Bank Peter Eigen and developed in shortest time to one most influential non-profit and partly-political independent movement of the most recent time, which can be compared concerning it political influence, for instance with Attack or Amnesty international. The head office of Transparency international and Transparency International Germany are in Berlin 1. The cause for the establishment of the organisation was the idea, the world corruption, which had accepted unbelievable extents and effect in the time of the cold war to fight by independent influencing control of an outstanding and particularly control instance standing for itself. The worldwide resonance on the establishment of transparency international in the year 1993 was unexpected. The historical framework offered a favorable surrounding field. The old iron curtain was with the German unit finally pleases, the core of the European union joined themselves straight, the Gulf was in Iran and Iraq, the civil war in Yugoslavia humans for justice had sensitized and frame the U.S.A, “blew the democratic wind” the Clinton era. Much was ready in paying a new. The idea of transparency international fell on fruitful soil, however in response also defense and criticism provoked.