Corrupt acts in the Nigerian construction industry: is the ruling party fighting corruption?

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.

KEYWORDS:

• Construction sector
• corruption
• corrupt acts
• Nigeria
• ruling party

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Prof. Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz and Prof. Mastura Jaafar for the supervision of the author’s PhD in Quantity Surveying Section, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia. The author is very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for providing constructive comments to enhance the quality of this paper.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes on contributor

Dr Andrew Ebekozien holds a PhD in Cost Management and Master of Technology in Quantity Surveying from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia and Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria respectively. He has produced many books, chapters in books, international journal and conference papers. Also, a peer reviewer for numerous Web of Sciences and Scopus indexed journals.