CORRUPTION AND COST OF GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Ambrose Alli University,
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Nigeria is a country with great potentials. However, these
potentials have been punctuated by a myriad of problems. The
problems are not necessarily that of lack of resources, but of
corruption and hence high cost of governance. The past and
present leadership of the country recognized the ugly situation this
has put the country and had devised mechanisms to stem the tide
for good. The mechanisms put in place by governments in the past
have not achieved the desired results. On the basis of the analysis
of the political economy of the country, the paper suggested ways
to solving the problem - reinforcing the current anti-corruption
drive of the government by making the structures/institutions put in
place to fight corruptio-n to be truly independent of the executive
arm of government and promptly bringing culprits to book, and
reduction in governmental units both at the state and local levels
to economicalZv manageable size. These the paper argues would
reduce corruption in the country and hence lower the cost of
governance.
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JA Political science (General), JZ International relations