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    THE NIGERIA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: QUESTIONING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ETHICS OF YESTERYEARS AND YEARS TO COME
    (Department of Accounting and Finance, Kwara State University, Malete, 2019) Lukman Adebayo Oke; Ibrahim Akanbi Bolaji
    Developed societies the world over are by products of honest and accountable leaders which form the crux of ethics of public administration. Leaders in this context plan the process and situation of achieving development by practical good example thereby convincingly carrying everyone along. The holistic implementation of researches meant for societal development differentiates ethical leaders from unethical ones. In Nigeria, corruption erodes ethics of government so much to the extent that it has been accepted as the process of government. This paper had a retrospective view on Nigeria’s public administration vis-à-vis leader’s ethics in government. The paper argues that since Nigeria’s first republic, there is no study or programme initiated by the government that has been holistically implemented for social development. This is because the government at any point in time in Nigeria is grossly unethical. Simply put, the government is corrupt. An ethical government leads by practical good example, hence Nigeria has been landing where we flew. Ethics in public administration stipulates that programmes meant for social development must be executed and those that constitute hindrance to the implementation must be sanctioned. In most cases, Nigerian leaders hinder development through embezzlement and mismanagement without sanction. The paper recommends that for Nigeria to achieve socio-economic development the rule of law must be effective and the strict enforcement of the law must be without a sacred cow. Finally, the present fight against corruption must be followed to a logical conclusion.