Value Added Reading: Panacea for Corruption among Public and Civil Service Employees in Nigeria
- September 5, 2018
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Management
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705
Value Added Reading: Panacea for Corruption among Public and Civil Service Employees in Nigeria
Prof. Abam Arikpo
Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Faculty of Education, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
Abstract: – It is common, today, in Nigeria to have corruption reported of public and civil servants. In fact, one is said to have good public or civil service employment only when there are lapses that allow him dupe the government and the public where he works. Despite measures by the three tiers of government, the practice has persisted. Thus, this paper seeks to advocate and discuss valued added reading as the most probable check.
Keywords: Value, reading, panacea, corruption, public/civil-service, employee.
It is common phenomenon to, in Nigeria, see individuals meritoriously or otherwise elected or appointed into public, civil, and private services or offices become corrupt (Arikpo, 1999). They make ‘grand’ and petty ill-gotten financial gains, aside from outright bribery; patronage; embezzlement; graft; kickback and absenteeism nepotism, tribalism, etc (Ihejiamaizu & Egbe, 2001).
Others are “influence peddling, use of position or rank to enrich self, bestowing of favour on friends and cult members moon lighting, partiality, abuse of public property, leaking or abuse of government information” (Ihejiamaizu & Egbe 2001; 222; 223); lawlessness, probable engagement in high-way robbery, bitter ethnic politics, traumatic and controversial census and election conducts, military coup d’etat, bloody civil and tribal wars, terrorism, rebellion against constituted authority, widespread industrial action (Nweke, 1986); obtaining by false pretenses and impersonation (419), drug trafficking and related vices; criminal linkages between money lenders and collaborating officers in banks, other financial houses and gambling places (Iwe,1997); the “madness to get rich by the fastest possible means” (Nwamuo,1986); examination malpractice and the menace of cultism (Denga, 1997); sexual abuse (Usen, Igbarumah, Mba, Ojuwale, Ukim & Oja, 1991); and payment of salaries or wages to non-existent workers and pensioners (ie ghost workers) (Ayobami, 2014).
