Effect of corruption in Nigeria
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION The British colonialists started the Nigeria public service, which later developed in the modern of the British civil service with its doctrine. The design of the civil service was not to work for the Interest of Nigeria and its people but to serve the British colonial interest. It was difficult after independent for the service to evolve good plans for the development of the country. A civil service whose characteristics continued with Max Webber’s ideal type of bureaucracy. However, the civil service emergence lacked the pre-requisite supporting ethics for the British oriented civil service. This is due to the abnormal past independent political development in Nigeria, in spite of the various change that take place in Nigeria from independence civil service remained essentially on the British type until the 1988 Reform by the Rtd Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. As a result of their attitude to the Nigerian, all the government properties were not considered as national properties on Nigerians even up till now many years after independence. This negative attitude still continues. Nigerian public servants still behave like the British. All special privileges are enjoyed by some Nigerians, like those in public offices. Public servants have failed to realize that they are servants of the people and not masters alone. Topic effect of corruption in Nigerian strictly speaking students of this nature is related source nowadays. Perhaps, the filling of one abused by Nigerian people as regard to the service of the public sector in the same vain Nigerian public service has been a subject of criticism by people from all works of life.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The force of this research work is to establish facts about the effect of having a corrupt practice in today civil service. Most causes of these problems are remote and immediate. They are remote because we inherited them from the colonial master (British) and immediate because of human
1.1 INTRODUCTION The British colonialists started the Nigeria public service, which later developed in the modern of the British civil service with its doctrine. The design of the civil service was not to work for the Interest of Nigeria and its people but to serve the British colonial interest. It was difficult after independent for the service to evolve good plans for the development of the country. A civil service whose characteristics continued with Max Webber’s ideal type of bureaucracy. However, the civil service emergence lacked the pre-requisite supporting ethics for the British oriented civil service. This is due to the abnormal past independent political development in Nigeria, in spite of the various change that take place in Nigeria from independence civil service remained essentially on the British type until the 1988 Reform by the Rtd Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. As a result of their attitude to the Nigerian, all the government properties were not considered as national properties on Nigerians even up till now many years after independence. This negative attitude still continues. Nigerian public servants still behave like the British. All special privileges are enjoyed by some Nigerians, like those in public offices. Public servants have failed to realize that they are servants of the people and not masters alone. Topic effect of corruption in Nigerian strictly speaking students of this nature is related source nowadays. Perhaps, the filling of one abused by Nigerian people as regard to the service of the public sector in the same vain Nigerian public service has been a subject of criticism by people from all works of life.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The force of this research work is to establish facts about the effect of having a corrupt practice in today civil service. Most causes of these problems are remote and immediate. They are remote because we inherited them from the colonial master (British) and immediate because of human
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