A PROPOSAL ON CORRUPTION AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE

Abstract

The study will investigate the corruption and underdevelopment in Nigerian public service. Using Bayelsa civil service commission as a cases study. The following objectives will be used for the study; to investigate the causes of corruption in Nigeria public service, to determine the impact of corruption on the Nigerian public service and to determine the relationship between corruption and under development. The method of data analysis that will be used by the researcher is the simple percentage. More so, percentage and degrees of the responses will also be used in the analysis. Here, the ratio of those whose responses were not in the affirmative will be found and conclusions will be drawn there upon. Representations of the level of responses will be made in tabular form. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software will be used to test the hypotheses

Introduction

Without a doubt, corruption has ruined the foundation and organization of the Nigerian state, making comprehensive progress impossible or at the very least illusory. Despite having enormous material and people resources, Nigeria is suffering at the bottom of the development scale (Dike, 2008). Without a question, issues of corruption and underdevelopment have dominated scholarly discourse (Omotoye, 2003, Bala, 2001, Agbiboa, 2010, Mustapha, 2008). This is true because corruption has a detrimental effect on a country’s overall advancement and development. Therefore, suffice it to say that corruption, particularly in the fourth republic where it is rising, is the cankerworm and cog in the wheels of Nigeria’s progress in the post-independence era.

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