PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS IN A DEMOCRACY: THE IMPERATIVE FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY TOWARDS COMBATING CORRUPTION

Nigeria no doubt has lost decades of development efforts given its slow and sometimes negative growth rates in spite of its enormous resource endowment Bad governance and the evil of corruption have often been cited as reasons for this poor performance. The present democratically elected government has realized this, and has lunched a reform agenda in an attempt to redirect effort towards developing the economy. The thinking in government is to reform the public sector so as to eliminate waste and tackle the evil of corruption through promotion of transparency and accountability. An evaluation of these reforms is attempted in this paper. The success or otherwise of these reforms depends on the sincerity and political of the government.