First point to note is that corruption can only happen in the context of an office or a service provided by that office. Corruption is abuse of office or the deviation from a standard to facilitate illegitimate personal gain. Just as there can be no photocopy without an original, corruption cannot exist without a legitimate service. So, if you fix the service,…..
One of the biggest problems with our current anti-corruption drive is the flawed assumption that corruption is something that only bad people do. It is flawed because it is simply not true. And to work with that assumption is to set ourselves up for another spectacular failure against this ubiquitous ailment.
Corruption can be bad – it can lead to murder,…..
Why would a practicing medical doctor hide an Ebola case? Why did the patient who was treated in secret conceal the fact that he had exposed the doctor? More importantly, how are we going to ensure these leaks do not happen again? These and more are the kinds of questions Nigerians are asking as the Federal Government announces the spread of the Ebola virus beyond Lagos and into Port Harcourt.
The quick and hard answer to these questions is that…..
He stepped out at the train station expecting tog to see his contact but no one. After seeing two more fruitless trains pull in and depart, he called Emeka to know what was going on. Emeka apologized for being late and asked my friend to meet him at another station two stops away. But this annoyed my friend who had gotten used to people keeping their appointments. So he refused, citing the additional inconvenience and cost and instead offered to…..
If you were appointed to run a public institution that is corruption-ridden and delivering very poor services, how will you go about turning that institution around?
Is there a process you can follow to ensure you get the right results in as short a time as possible? Are there steps that will ensure visible, deliberate and desirable outcomes that your customers (the public) and your staff (public servants) can support and celebrate?
When faced with corruption, we are often tempted…..
