COMBATING CORRUPTION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This work sees corruption generally as a condemnable behaviour and particularly identifies corruption in the education sector as a practice that has multiple capabilities for undermining the national development of Nigeria. Corruption in the education sector terribly creates infrastructural deficits that result in poor instructional delivery and making many people not to have access to education which in addition to being a fundamental human right is a spring board for their empowerment and emancipation infrastructural deficits and inability of a people to have access to education systematically renders useless the ability of the people to engineer national development as generations of citizens are left frustrated, disgruntled and disenchanted in addition to manifesting terrible immorality in the forms of militancy and insurgency. Embrace of militancy and insurgency as a result of lack of access and infrastructure owe their sources to corruption, which disastrously has multiplier effects on the growth and the national development of the Nigerian state: potential human beings who ideally are great assets for the development of Nigeria are lost to actions/activities that are not investor and investment friendly. The work recommends among other things are establish a code of conduct, increase transparency, Strengthen internal controls, implement anti- corruption training and establish an independent anti-corruption body.