An Overview of Politico-Bureaucratic Values and Public Accountability in Nigeria
An Overview of Politico-Bureaucratic Values and Public Accountability in Nigeria
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2017-07
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IDRIS, Musa IBRAHIM, Halima LABARAN, Fatima Adam
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Abstract
Government has become ultimately inseparable from the day today life of the 'citizens.
This is because government is now involved in the overall socio economic development
as against its traditional role of maintaining law and order. The government is
responsible for providing varieties of services to its citizens including education, health
and social welfare through the state. To accomplish this, government requires the
bureaucratic system that is designed to execute or implement the decisions or policies of
the political class. The paper relied heavily on an array of both published and
unpublished materials to provide critical and analytical details on the phenomenon under
study-However, ethics and accountability remain among the major challenges
confronting the Nigerian civil service. Rules and regulations are no longer observed in
the civil and public sennce as well. There is also lack of political will on the part of the
govenvnent, slow judicial process, playing the ethnic card and indifference of the
masses. It is against this backdrop that this paper X-rays the entire architecture of
bureaucratic and systemic impediments to public accountability in Nigeria. The paper
argued that in order to address bureaucratic values, political interest and public
accountability in Nigeria, it is pertinent for political elite and bureaucrats to interrelate
in an effective manner so as to bring out the possible best in Nigeria. Credible politicians
and state officers should be diligent and sincere enough to enable them discharge their
duties by putting the national interest first in all their endeavors
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Department of Public Administration, ABU, Zaria