The Ombudsman, Bureaucratic Dictatorship and Democratic Rule in Nigeria
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2019
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College of Management and Social Sciences, Fountain University osogbo
Abstract
This paper examines the need for any civilian government to guarantee and safeguard
individual rights and liberties of its citizenry against arbitrary abuse of bureaucratic
power of public servants in the course of carrying out their official duties. The paper
therefore assesses the role of the Ombudsman in the control of administrative excesses
of public servants through the redress of complaints lodged by aggrieved citizens
against administrative injustice on the part of public servants. The paper concludes that
the various government agencies and control mechanisms of the Ombudsman in
Nigeria have failed to perform this role effectively over the years as a result of the
absence of an enabling and effective legal framework. The paper recommends that the
Ombudsman should be given the needed “legal teeth” to be able to play its important
role as required under civil rule. This paper adopts the qualitative method of analysis
using mainly secondary source of data.
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Ombudsman, SERVICOM, complaints and redress-mechanism, public relations, safeguard of rights