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Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari has identified nepotism, cronyism, political patronage as some forms of corrupt practices that distract public servants from delivering on their mandates.
The President, who spoke Friday at the maiden edition of the Nigeria Excellence Awards in Public Service (NEAPS), held at the Conference Centre of the State House, Abuja, stressed that the authorities must standardize their penal systems for punishing corruption in public service in order not to send the wrong signal to the public.
Commenting on how corrupt practices slow public service delivery down, President Buhari said “at present, issues in corruption continue to affect the civil services in many countries, around the world. Several reasons of these issues still exist because of the deeply rooted problems like…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
