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Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola (.AhA) [email protected]


By

Abdul-Hakeem [email protected]

@ the

National Conference of Youths Against CorruptionOrganised by the

International Conference Centre, Abuja.

24-26 November 2015


HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS?

“Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives“ Michelle Obama

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Corruption attacks the foundation of democraticinstitutions by distorting electoral processes,perverting the rule of law, and creatingbureaucratic quagmires whose only reason forexistence is the soliciting of bribes

Source: http://icpc.gov.ng/

“Corruption” includes bribery, fraud and other related offences

Source: Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000

CORRUPTION


QUOTES ABOUT CORRUPTION

“Corruption is authority plus

monopoly minus transparency.”

- Unknown

“I will not let anyone walk

through my mind with their dirty

feet.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Kurt Cobain – late US singer

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the

Establishment - and nothing more

corrupting. A. J. P. Taylor - English

historian

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth

becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow

up to your ruin. Aesop

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A Small Problem

THREE MYTHS ABOUT CORRUPTION

Three myths about corruption by Afra Raymond

of Trinidad & Tobago http://www.ted.com/talks/afra_raymond_three_myths_ab

out_corruption/transcript?language=en#t-806


Bucharest, Colectiv Nightclub Fire, October 30, 2015

51 Killed, Dozens InjuredFire caused by illegal indoor

usage of outdoor pyrotechnics

Protests against government corruption and poor safety

supervision

25,000 people protested in Bucharest against the corrupt

political class chanting "Corruption kills."

Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned, November 2015Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned,

November 2015

CORRUPTION KILLS

Source: http://www.diplomaticintelligence.eu/european-union-news/1153-romania-prime-minister-victor-ponta-has-resignedSource: http://financialspots.com/2015/11/01/bucharest-nightclub-fire-dozens-killed-and-injured/

Bribes allegedly paid to city safety officials to look the other way

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Kini ki nse

Me zan iya yi

Kedu ihe m nwere ike ịme


Stay Safe • Assessing Risks

Keep Watch

• 1. Follow the Money

• 2. Count Supplies

• 3. Citizen Report Cards

• 4. Tech Solutions

Get Creative

• 5. Comics & Cartoons

• 6. Theatre & Drama

• 7. Board Games

• 8. Sports

Mobilise

• 9. Youth Groups

• 10. Integrity Camps

• 11. “Zero” Bribes

• 12. Protests

• 13. Petitions

Make Elections Count

• 14. Election Pledges

• 15. Crowdsourcing

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION KIT FOR YOUNG ACTIVISTS

Source: http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/anti_corruption_kit_15_ideas_for_young_activists

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ASSESSING RISKS

All activities have risk Doing nothing is a risk

Get legal permission where necessary Take reasonable precautions Assess/ Evaluate the risks

What are the threats? Think about who might be harmed and how

What can we do to stop it from happening? How you can reduce/ minimise the risk

What will we do if it happens? What can we do before it happens to reduce the

impact? Who do you go to for help and assistance?


SHOW ME THE MONEY

Community organisation MUHURI carried out social audits on theconstituency projects spending by members of parliament usingproject analysis forms and a simple questionnaire, the activistsvisited each project site to assess whether each project wascompleted according to the specifications

Source: www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/Profile-of-MUHURI-Kenya-2011.pdf

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SHOW ME THE MONEY: THE MOVIE JERRY MAGUIRE


COUNT SUPPLIES

1 millionboy scoutsand girlguidescountedtextbooks&conductedqualityinspectionsthroughoutthe country

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CITIZEN REPORT CARDS Citizen Report Cards are

participatory surveys thatprovide quantities feedback onuser perceptions on the quality,adequacy and efficiency ofpublic services

Source:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTSOCIALDEVELOPMENT/EXTPCENG/0,,contentMDK:20507680~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:410306,00.html

“First Time Voters project” bythe Centre for Youth Advocacyand Networking

“Youth report card programme”used to determine youngpeople’s satisfaction levels onthe accomplishments &platforms of the presidentialcandidates of 2010


COMICS & CARTOONS

Great for communicating tothose who cannot read

Comics are created byordinary people andactivists, so they give afirst-hand view of the issuesfacing the community. Theyare also a form ofexpression that encouragesdebate.

Comics can promotecommunal understandingacross ethnic lines

Genuine, heartfelt storiesare convincing, compellingand have credibilitySource: http://www.ti-bangladesh.org/beta3/index.php/en/activities/4741-

celebrating-the-right-to-know-day-2015

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COMICS & CARTOONS IN NIGERIA


THEATRE, DRAMA & MUSIC

Popular theatre can be used to empower citizens with newknowledge about societal forces that affect lives as well asways to improve their own communities

Source: blog.transparency.org/2012/12/14/beating-bribery-international-anticorruption-day-in-morocco/

Umbrellas of Integrity Drummers and dancers

filled the streets ofCasablanca as part ofInternational Anti-Corruption Day festivities toraise awareness aboutcorruption through music,dance

Distributing umbrellas of integrity to the crowd as it grewbigger to “shield them from the rain of corruption.”

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MUSIC IN NIGERIA


NIGERIA INITIATIVES GOING GLOBAL

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BOARD GAMES

Games are increasingly at the heart of the way we work, learnand play

Playing for Rightshttp://www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/activity-great-escape

Games cut through studentboredom and disinterest

Offer learning in camouflage Games are great vehicles for “learning by doing” and can be

an excellent way to test knowledge and reinforce practicalskills

Amnesty International created a simple board game toeducate youth on human rights – with players becominggroups of refugees planning their escape to freedom

The only equipment needed was print-outs of playing cards onA3 paper, a watch, crayons and pens


SPORTS

Running against corruption Scoring a goal for transparency

: Kabul’s CorruptionMarathon www.dw.de/afghans-marathon-efforts-to-

fight-corruption/a-16632624

: Show Corruption the “RedCard” http://vijanaamanipamoja.webs.com/

During the football games, cones labelled with corruptiondrivers (including greed, bribery and nepotism, amongst others)blocked the path of players

If a player stepped on a ‘corruption cone’, their team waspunished with 20 star jumps for committing an act ofcorruption and a point was awarded to the opposing team. Theaim of the game is to illustrate that corruptionpenalises the majority and stands in the way of achieving yourambitions

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INTEGRITY CAMPS

Get friends and students together to take on corruption

: Empowered & Inspired www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/05/30/jovenes-por-un-

paraguay-mas-transparenteq

One hundred and thirty young peoplefrom Cambodia gathered in thecountry’s capital to learn innovativeways to promote anti-corruption

The camp featured speakers from the Anti-Corruption Unit,lawyers specialising in transparency, media producers andprominent youth leaders

Inspired and ready to take on corruption, campers plannedhow to engage people in their own communities

They also discussed hosting a workshop open to all ages tohelp others learn about fighting corruption in the country

Source: http://ticambodia.org/index.php/news/pressrelease/youth-camp-empowering-young-people-to-demand-for-transparency-and-integrity


YOUTH GROUPS

Local and national groups ofyoung people coming togetherto share their disapproval ofcorruption

: Youth for Changehttp://blog.transparency.org/2013/02/06/ti-cambodia-youth-camp-in-pictures-empowering-youngpeople-to-join-the-fight-against-corruption/comment-page-1/

Reacción Joven de Cambio (Youth Change Reaction) Youth group with members between 15 and 26 years old The movement promotes initiatives to raise young people’s

awareness about corruption In 2012, the young activists implemented the

Transparency Talks Project, which included workshops forstudent leaders in secondary schools across three cities tostrengthen their efforts to fight corruption in Paraguay

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“ZERO” BRIBES

The “zero currency” note is a visual aidthat encourages people to say “no” tocorrupt officials and to expose whereand when bribes are demanded

: The “ZeroRupee” Movement

www.5thpillar.org/programs/zero-rupee-note

The “zero rupee” notewas created by anIndian physicsProfessor who washarassed by endlessextortion demands Hehanded out the “zerorupee” notes as apoliteway of saying“no” to officials whoheld out their hands

Source: www.zerocurrency.org


PROTESTS

Protests, marches, demonstrations andrallies can be a powerful tool for anti-corruption campaigners

ThaiYouth Anti-CorruptionNetwork

www.th.undp.org/content/thailand/en/home/presscenter/articles/2012/12/11/studentscrowd-bangkok-on-anti-corruption-day-december-9.html

The Thai Youth Anti-Corruption Network, agroup of more than 4,000 Thai universitystudents from more than 90 universities,was recognised as a “Creative for Good”best practice by the World Economic Forum

On 9 December 2012, on International Anti-Corruption Day, 2,000 students rallied atthe Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

They raised public awareness on thecorrosive effects of corruption in Thaisociety and sent a signal that every sectorin Thailand should be actively engaged infighting corruption, including young peopleand their universities

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OCCUPY NIGERIA

Civil Disobedience, Civil Resistance, Strike Actions,

Demonstrations & Online Activism


PETITIONS

A petition is a collectionof signatures frompeople supporting yourcause

The petition is thenpresented to decisionmakers that have thepower to create thechange you want

www.change.org The world’s largest

petition platform More than 40 million

users in 196countries and thesite & translated into11 languages

Every day, peopleuse the platform totransform theircommunities

In 2011, Youth against Corruption Vanuatuorganised an event under the theme “Uniteand Fight against Corruption”

Organisers asked participants to sign apetition calling on the government to end allcorrupt practices

YouthPetition

www.yacv.org/yacv/archives/minister-of-justice-social-welfare-receives-a-petition-from-yac

All signatures were quickly collected and a final petition waspresented to Vanuatu’s Minister of Justice and Social Welfare twodays after the event closed

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ELECTION PLEDGES

Hold Politicians accountable for theircampaigning and election promises in thelead up to elections

Jonathan BuhariPledge to hold peaceful"free, fair, andcredible" elections

http://www.voanews.com/content/al-jazeera-says-nigeria-detained-its-reporters/2695083.html

A group of young volunteers establishedthe “Clean Election Campaign” in theSolomon Islands

Their pledge states: “I pledge that I willreject all bribes. I will not accept anyfalse promises. I will not sell my vote. Iwill not involve myself in any corruptactivities during, before and after theelections. And also I pledge that I willuse my full conscience to decide on myvote and ask God to help me to decide myvote. And I pledge that I will only votefor an honest leader.”

Clean election Pledge www.cauxforum.net/node/22741


CROWDSOURCING

Monitor elections inreal-time viaTweet; Text:WhatsApp; E-mailand other mobile &web Apps

Onlinecrowdsourcingallows reporting ofvoting irregularities

Information caneven be plottedonto an interactivemap online withdashboards

Mapping the election. www.uchaguzi.co.ke

Tweeting the election. http://www.transparency.org/news/pressrelease/%0Bcitizen_election_network_reports_on_irregularities_during_venezuelas_electi

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CROWDSOURCING IN NIGERIA


INDIA'S CORRUPTION MONITOR HTTP://IPAIDABRIBE.COM/

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IPAIDABRIBE.COM ANALYTICS

I Paid a Bribe focuses on crowdsourced reportsof retail corruption and bribery Report an Honest Officer Latest reports Daily Anti-Corruption news

Real-time statistics that highlightcorruption across various states& MDA’s in India

Monitor bribe trends & be armedin the fight against corruption


UNMASK THE CORRUPT - HTTPS://UNMASKTHECORRUPT.ORG/#SECTION-CONTEST

• Resources to understand how critical it is to unmask the corrupt• Nominate a corruption case you feel deserves global attention

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HACKTIVISM

Hacktivism is the act of hacking,or breaking into a computersystem, for a politically orsocially motivated purpose. Theindividual who performs an actof hacktivism is said to be ahacktivist

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/hacktivism

Anonymous and Lulz Security (to LulzSec)


SHAFFI MATHER’S SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Pay a bribe in your day-to-daylife to get something done

Bribes & corruption have both ademand and a supply side Supply side being mostly of

greedy corporate unethicalbusinesses & hapless commonman

Demand side being mostlypoliticians, bureaucrats &those who have discretionarypower vested with them

Pilot social enterprise to addressindividual instances of demandsfor bribes for common servicesor entitlement.

42 cases where they havepushed back bribe demandsusing existing & legitimate tools: Right to Information Act, Video, audio, or Peer Pressure In all 42 cases, we have

achieved success.

Three kinds of reaction: "Oh, let me just grant it to them,

and run away from it.“ "Oh, you want to screw me. Let

me show you what I can do.“ Succumb after further pressure

It cost N600 to fight an N9,000bribe demand

http://www.ted.com/talks/shaffi_mather_a_new_way_to_fight_corruption/transcript?language=en#t-73000

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BROOM OF INTEGRITY:SWEEP OUT CORRUPTION


PROPOSITION FOR ADOPTION

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IN THE WORDS OF STEVE JOBS, FOUNDER OF APPLE COMPUTERS


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