IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON PRODUCTIVITY IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS: A STUDY OF MANIFESTATIONS AND FACTORS PROPELLING CIVIL SERVICE CORRUPTION

Abstract

Corruption is a phenomenon no country is immune to, a fact that the classical view on corruption to concern only less developed countries, even though these countries do score systematically worse in corruption rankings, does not hold. The corruption of
public resources in Nigeria has become a daily occurrence and an accepted norm within the public domain. This indeed is the environment the Nigerian civil service exists and operates cumulating into its declining performance. As a colonial heritage, the
service has not been able to prevent and immune itself of corrupt practices despite series of reforms, anti-graft agencies like EFCC, ICPC, Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal among others. It is from this stand point drawing from extent literature and
content analysis as the methodological basis of the paper, the paper's research findings established that manifestations and factors propelling civil service corruption have severely affected the productivity of the civil servants and exposed the service
to the corrupt external tendencies. Therefore, there is need for a pragmatic effort to end corruption in the civil service in collaboration with all anti graft stakeholders. While the civil servants leads, the government must becomes responsive in creating the right working environment that will get rid of the identified factors manifesting and propelling civil service corruption in Nigeria in order to restore the productivity of the workers and its lost glory.