National Programme Manager, State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, SPARC, Dr. Joe Abah, has described corruption as a major bane of Nigeria's growth.
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Dr. Abah spoke at the 2013 session of the annual Iju Public Affairs Forum, IPAF, an initiative of a former World Bank expert, Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun, held in Iju, Akure North, Ondo State.
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He said: "There is a clear and urgent need to tackle the menace of corruption, a binding constraint to organisational effectiveness."
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Speaking on the lecture entitled Pockets of Effectiveness in Nigerian Public Service and Lessons for Accelerating National Development, Abah said if corruption was tackled, "there is a much better chance of engendering effective public organisations."
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Abah listed National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC; Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, as having Pockets of Effectiveness, POEs.