African countries like Nigeria has international corporates which contributes to corruption. The activities of these corporates are in most circumstances not scruitinized. The reason is because they operate as a cartel. Anything affecting one also affects the others. This provide the basis for resistance should the government seek to scruitinize their activities. Usually it comes with threats, for example of folding up their investments in the country. Since the was in the first place the one that sought for them to invest in the country.

Secondly, there is a serious and deeply rooted relationship between these cartels and those in government. They collaborate at more than one point to the exploitation and underdevelopment of their own countries. The links which they have are often used as means for enhancing personal interest. Since corruption is usually carried out in secrecy, it becomes difficult to discover. (See Hamza Alavi or John Saul discourses on the post colonial state theory).

The corporates like those dealing with crude oil and gas, who posses the technology and the country has not, they determine what terms of social relations of production are, and in most circumstances the government agrees with such terms due the lack of technology. This also breed corruption. It is evident in rentier economies (See the Rentier State theory).

Above all, the metrics of corporate corruption differs. Corporates corrupt to the advantages of those who govern in countries in Africa. The political classes benefits, but their own people are losers of everything. They will sale of the future of the people for a pair of sandals. The corporates corrupt to the advantages of both them and their countries. This produces unequal relations in the corrupt relationship.

A good reason for all that is the weakness of the governments due to either it is not democratically elected by its' people or its poor management of its resources which open the gates to corruption to be done by these corporates. A strong government that has the backing of its' people will be a good defender to a country's wealth and resources. @Nsemba Edward Lenshie

The arguments provided appear to be strong, but no reflection is about, if local corporations are less corrupt, observe human and workers' right more rigorously and pay better wages to their employees and have better social security provisions. Also the involvement of national Governments in the generation of corruption seems to be important. In Fiji it is rather easy fro multinational corporations to invest. Little need to convince officials to allow investment. I do not want to rule out that corruption does not happen, but the more barriers are there for investment, the more efforts to overcome these barriers in a timely manner.

@Ererhard Weber,

That was my argument in my first paper

How much corruption can be tolarable

and how much corruption control is too much that it would slow down economic growth

I reached s conclusion that corruptio controle should be increased gradually and governments should accept that economic growth takes time to reach higher levels.

The undeniable fact - these conglomerate firms are those 'supply and feed' their government (in most developing nation). To maintain their ruling, corruption became a norms. In fact, sadden reality, a corruption index are highest among nation who claims religious nation compared to nation have no specific religion affiliation. Whats more! corruptions are also synonym with capitalism practice. The greediest the capitalism the worsen the corruption practice.