Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria
Government all over the world exists to provide essential services to the citizens because that is the only way the citizens can feel the positive impact of governance. This paper examined the effects of ethics and accountability in governance on effective and efficient public service delivery. T...
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Danubius University
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| description | Government all over the world exists to provide essential services to the citizens because
that is the only way the citizens can feel the positive impact of governance. This paper examined the
effects of ethics and accountability in governance on effective and efficient public service delivery.
There cannot be effective and efficient public service delivery if there is the absence of ethics and
accountability in governance in the public sector. Those who carry out the task of governance are given
the power by the citizens and as such expected to ensure that the power given is used to deliver efficient
and effective public services. This paper is qualitative in nature because data for the paper were gathered
through secondary means and analyzed through the historical and descriptive methods. The paper
adopted the social contract theory as theoretical framework. The paper found out that the low level of
public service delivery in Nigeria which has manifested in high level of unemployment, poverty and
insecurity is as a result of lack of strict adherence to ethics and accountability by those saddled with the
responsibility of delivering public services in Nigeria. The paper recommended amongst other things
that the citizens must be alive to their responsibility of ensuring they hold government and its officials
to account for their actions and inactions and be ready to throw away inefficient government through
elections and other legitimate means. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dff57830703548fe9a9d2685d0726d022023-09-21T12:46:46ZengDanubius UniversityActa Universitatis Danubius: Administratio2068-54592022-09-011415061Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in NigeriaCletus Chuks Egugbo0Olabisi Onabanjo UniversityGovernment all over the world exists to provide essential services to the citizens because that is the only way the citizens can feel the positive impact of governance. This paper examined the effects of ethics and accountability in governance on effective and efficient public service delivery. There cannot be effective and efficient public service delivery if there is the absence of ethics and accountability in governance in the public sector. Those who carry out the task of governance are given the power by the citizens and as such expected to ensure that the power given is used to deliver efficient and effective public services. This paper is qualitative in nature because data for the paper were gathered through secondary means and analyzed through the historical and descriptive methods. The paper adopted the social contract theory as theoretical framework. The paper found out that the low level of public service delivery in Nigeria which has manifested in high level of unemployment, poverty and insecurity is as a result of lack of strict adherence to ethics and accountability by those saddled with the responsibility of delivering public services in Nigeria. The paper recommended amongst other things that the citizens must be alive to their responsibility of ensuring they hold government and its officials to account for their actions and inactions and be ready to throw away inefficient government through elections and other legitimate means.https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/AUDA/article/view/1233/2305public serviceelectionsgovernmentpoverty |
| spellingShingle | Cletus Chuks Egugbo Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria Acta Universitatis Danubius: Administratio public service elections government poverty |
| title | Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria |
| title_full | Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria |
| title_short | Ethics and Accountability in Governance: Panacea for Effective and Efficient Public Service Delivery in Nigeria |
| title_sort | ethics and accountability in governance panacea for effective and efficient public service delivery in nigeria |
| topic | public service elections government poverty |
| url | https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/AUDA/article/view/1233/2305 |
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