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Discipline In The Public Service In Nigeria
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.9BACKGROUND AND THE NEED FOR THE STUDY
With
the emergence of modern state and development of the parliamentary
system of government, the civil service or public service has evolve as
the bed-rock of the executive arm of government. Its main task has been
the implementation or execution of government policies and programmes.
In
addition, it is also responsible for the management of the machinery of
government and carrying out daily duties that public administration
demands. The public service administration is made up of ministries or
parastatals or extra-ministerial departments.
There has been an
impairment of discipline in the public service that the traditional role
of policy implementation has been affected adversely. The civil service
commission which is the body responsible for the effective maintenance
of discipline hardly can perform this task these days. (Adabayo, 1994:
199(.
According to Ani, (1991: 10), a good number of our public
servants believe that the public service belongs to our then colonial
masters and as such they throw discipline in the service to the winds.
Under such condition of indiscipline, productivity in the service in
adversely affected.
In the words of Ciroms, (1985: 5) the high rate
of cases of indiscipline in the service has rendered the public service
an adhoc affair instead of a permanent future of our modern government
and administration.
The rules and regulations are given various interpretation to suit certain perceptions and to achieve selfish motives.
Adebayo,
(1994: 180) believes that the high degree of indiscipline in the public
service had give rise to (god-fatherism) nepotism, favouritism and
inefficiency in the service. He went further to trace the cause to the
attitude of our political leadership.
The views of Adebayo have gone
to give credence to the fact that even public servants themselves no
longer trust their colloquies. Appointments, promotions and even
benefits have been offered to under public servants against the laid
down civil service rules.
Worse still the public themselves (the tax
payers) no longer have confidence on the civil servants and the
necessary co-operation the public would have offered has been withdrawn.
The net effect is that entire system is suffering and even getting to a
total collapse.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The topic of this study was discipline in the public service of Enugu, state. (A Case study of ministry of Justice, Enugu). The study made use of both primary and secondary sources of data. The questionnaire was developed based on the four research questions. The population of the study was 307 (Three hundred and Seven) staff of both ministry of Justice and civil service commission, Enugu. The sample size was 174 (one hundred and seventy – four). The sample technique used was stratified r ... Continue reading---
