ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES AS AN ANTIDOTE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN NIGERIA PUBLIC SERVICE
ABSTRACT
This research work is centred on ‘’Anti-corruption Measures as an Antidote for Accountability in Nigeria Public’’ with a case study of Federal Inland Revenue Service Lokoja, Kogi State. Prior to the role of anti-corruption measures towards accountability. The research work involved some key objectives like to determine the effect of corruption on Nigeria economy and to recommend solution on how corruption can be combated in Nigeria. Primary and secondary methods were used in collecting data while simple percentage methods were used in analyzing the data. The research work has its major findings in the table 4.2.5 that the policies established before the present administration has not yielded positive impact because policy makers are still the ones that implement it. The researcher recommend that government should improve her rate of supervision in implementing policies and programmes.
CHAPTER ONE:
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The word corruption means the destruction, running or spoiling of a society or a nation. A corrupt society stops valuing integrity and moral principles. It changes for the worse.
Corruption hinders economic growth and deters investment. The impact of development assistance is reduced and natural resources are over-exploited, causing further harm to a country’s environmental assets. Resources are diverted from sectors such as education and health to less important sector or personal enrichment. The rule of law is eroded and the people no longer respect or trust the state.
A few people manage to get rich at the expense of society as a whole, while the poor suffer terrible rejection. In the long run, unchecked corruption pushes more and more people into poverty which often destabilize a society.
The consequences of corruption for social and economic development are bad. People who are getting a very low wages and salaries feels they have to demand bribes in order to live decent lives. But they do not realize that corruption causes sufficiency to other. No society can endure anything neat if they allow corruption to become the full blown concern as it has become in Nigeria.
One of the greatest tragedies of military rule in recent time is that corruption was allowed to grow unchallenged and unchecked even when it was glaring for every body to see. It is also pervasive that both the public and private sector are affected, corruption now permeate every aspect of Nigeria life especially in the transaction of government at various level. It is a constant topic of conversation among all, of course, every body complains about it yet, every one appears to be involved.
Corruption manifests greatly in few people who pays and collect bribes to gain unfair advantage and of those who abuse a position not trust by taking bribes. Many people usually play bribes to gain one advantage or the other and the action is ironically considered socially acceptable in almost every facet of the society.
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