KOGI STATE
Faculty of Management Sciences
Journal of MANAGEMENT
ISSN: 3212 - 3122
BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION AND PRACTICE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA
R. N. Nwankwo, M. O. Ananti & M. H. C. Madubueze
Abstract
The role of the public bureaucracy in fostering a perfect and efficient administrative system in a country cannot be under estimated. In Nigeria, performance of public bureaucracy has come under severe criticisms and questionings within the context of the gap that exists between its anticipated role and its actual output. The failure of public bureaucracy to deliver the expected output to the society informed the series of reforms that have come to form the policy thrust of successive Nigerian governments since the 1980’s. Suffice it to say therefore, that the aftermath of such reforms has been on the need to have efficient and responsive public service that has the capacity to meet the challenges posed by the domestic and internal environments. The efforts of the Nigerian government have not yielded the much expected results due to the problem of corruption that has eaten deep into the fabrics of the Nigerian society. The paper therefore examined the causes of the upsurge of corruption in public administration in Nigeria. We argued that government should strengthen her political will to deal with the issue of bureaucratic corruption as it was seen that there was nothing wrong with the Nigerian system.
Keywords
Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Corruption, Public Administration
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