Abstract:
Corruption is both a major causation of and a result of poverty
around the world especially in the third world countries. It occurs
at all levels of societies, judiciary functions, civil service
commission, large and small business, military and other serv
ices.
Corruption affects the poorest the most, whether in rich or poor
nations. In Nigeria, the issue of
corruption is
seriously troubling and
damaging. It has dome damage not only to the Nigeria civil service,
but also to the general
socio
-
political and economic existence of the
society. Recently, Nigeria was ranked as the 35
th
most corrupt
nation in the world by Transparency International (TI), published in
Leadership newspaper on 6/12/2012 no. 1858. Thus corruption in
Nigeria civil s
ervice leads to slow movement of file in offices, taking
bribe by top civil servants, ghost workers syndrome and lots of
other pitfalls. Victor (2002) argues “even the mad people on the
streets recognized the havoc caused by corruption, the funds
allocated
for their welfare disappears into thin air”. If this is the
case, what is more of civil servant?
