Ethics and Accountability in Nigerian Public Service: Its Collapse and the Way Forward

Muhammad Abdullahi

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013, vol. 2

Abstract: This paper seeks to assess the ethics and accountability within which the public service in Nigeria operate since independence through the focus on accountability and control measures specifically designed to guard against abuse and misuse of bureaucratic power. It argues that these measures have failed to provide the service with the necessary ethical environment in the post independence period due to deliberate frustration by civil servants and the government hence resulting in unethical conducts, unbridle corruption and collapse of public service. The paper concludes that the only way to tackle unethical conduct in the public service is to tackle corruption at all level of the public service and expose it. Since the various control and accountability measure instituted in the constitution have been rendered in operative by the same people who are expected to work by them. The paper recommend that the public servant should be aware of the ethical values and standards as outlined in the civil service rules (CSR), political will to enforce those standards.

Date: 2013
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/ajis/article/view/600 (text/html)
https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/ajis/article/view/600/623 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bjz:ajisjr:245

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n5p117

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies from Richtmann Publishing Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Richtmann Publishing Ltd ().