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Members of the New Kuchigoro community accuse boys and girls living at the IDP camp of “corrupting their children.” On the other hand, parents living at the IDP camp say members of the New Kuchigoro community “are corrupting their children.”
While the federal government reduced the fees for registering marriages in Nigeria, corrupt officials of marriage registries have continued to extort prospective couples by charging above the official rate – diverting millions of naira into their personal bank accounts, and shortchanging the federal government. This investigation looks at the corrupt practices and loopholes through which a system frustrates its own online registration portal and forces citizens into mandatory bribes. TAIWO ADEBULU went undercover to expose the fraud in the marriage registration process.
