CLEANSING NIGERIA’S CIVIL SERVICE: THE PERIL AND PROMISE
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2018-12
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Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri
Abstract
The Nigerian civil service came under severe scrutiny following the discovery
and recovery of large-scale looting of government money and assets by civil
servants recently. The discoveries were made by the various federal government
anticorruption Agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and
the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). This is as a result of the zero tolerance
stance of the Muhammadu Buhari government for corruption in the civil service
since it came to power about three years ago. Is it possible for a civil service
bedevilled by this magnitude of corruption to be effective and efficient,
especially in the area of service delivery and national development? This paper
holds the view that the government should concise it efforts to cleanse the
country’s civil service of corrupt practises. The paper adopted the qualitative
method of analysis using explorative data analysis techniques for the secondary
data. The theoretical framework of Durkheim’s anomie is adopted to explain the
subject matter.
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Corruption, Civil Service, Cleansing, National Development, Leadership