Abstract:
Corruption in the public service has triggers government response by setting up an impressive array of institutions designed to curtail the malaise in the public sector. However, these efforts have continued to fail. This thesis have taken a deep assessment of institutional mechanisms for combating corruption in Nigerian public service, given special attention to the Independent Corrupt Practice and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP), and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). The Objectives of the study is to find out the extent to which the anti-corruption mechanisms has gone in the fight against corruption, ascertain the efficacy or other wise of these institutional mechanisms, to identify the problems militating against them and maker recommendation that will strengthened these institutions. Data for the study were generated from both primary and secondary sources. The instrument of primary data used is questionnaire while published and unpublished text, form the basis of secondary data. Data analysis was done by employing both qualitative and quantitative method. However, the chi-square (X2) was used to test the hypothesis. The thesis revealed that, factors which constituted obstacles to the various anti-corruption institutions are basically like of autonomy and training as well as inadequate crime fighting facilities. Although the study discovered that, the corruption fighting agencies has reduce corruption in Nigerian public service to some extent, it went further based on these findings and recommended among other things that, there should be explicit compulsory public declaration of assets and liabilities of those holding statutory position in the Nigerian Public Service; The anti corruption agencies should be given greater operational autonomy; Some provisions of the various laws establishing these organizations that constituted frustrators should be reviewed; Independent staffing and continuous training; Broad range of integrated long term national and international sustainable efforts and reforms which flow with social value re-orientation.
