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Corrupt acts in the Nigerian construction industry: is the ruling party fighting corruption?
- Source :
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies . Jul2020, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p348-365. 18p. 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Corrupt acts are possibly on the increase and have hindered infrastructural development across Nigeria. This paper attempts to investigate the impact of the All Progressive Congress (ruling party) led government in the fight against corruption with emphasis on the construction sector and proffer possible policy to mitigate via unexplored dimension. Hence, phenomenology type of qualitative research was adopted to address the issues from the underlying. A connecting framework was developed from the identified root causes of the forms of corrupt acts, for better understanding as it relates to mitigating corruption in the Nigerian construction sector. From the findings, there is a need to develop a control system to evaluate corruption performance of public construction project and publish the report annually or quarterly among others is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02589001
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 146806757
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2020.1758304