Political Corruption, which is normally defined as an abuse of public power for private gain, is a global issue that has received a lot of attention from the political sector, private industry, and academics around the word for many decades, especially in developing countries. Research population and research instrument to be used for data gathering. It also will discuss data gathering procedure, data analysis, and ethical consideration as well as expect limitations of the study. The researcher was used self-administered questionnaire in this study to collect the required information. I was first obtained an authority letter from the student Affairs and Registration department of University of Somalia to authorize the researcher to carry out a research about political corruption and socio – economic development. The findings on respondent’s characteristic analysis using frequencies and percentage distribution showed that majority of respondents were male, high portion respondents were the age younger than thirty two years, most of respondents were degree bachelor holders. Nepotism is one of the factors contributing political corruption and thus remains a big challenge Nepotism increases appointment of family member to positions. Political Corruption as the "diversion of public resources to nonpublic purposes." In Africa many people see corruption as a practical problem involving the "outright theft, embezzlement of funds or other appropriation of state property, nepotism and the granting of favors to personal acquaintances, and the abuse of public authority and position to exact payments and privileges.