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Inertia and Reform in the Nigerian Public Service

This article is a commentary on aspects of the report of an administrative reform commission (the Public Service Review Commission) set up by the Federal Military Government of Nigeria in September, 1972. The area covered by the Commission is very wide but in this article, attention is focused primarily on the Commission's plans for the introduction of accountable management style in the public services. In its quest for what it termed a 'New Style', results-oriented Public Service, the Commission advocated the application of a number of modern management techniques in the Nigerian public services. One of these is M-b-O. The technique has had a good run in private business organizations, and, with the publication of the Fulton Report, it became one of the innovations in the British civil service. The mere fact that it worked elsewhere is, however, no guarantee that it will immediately succeed in Nigeria. This article discusses the problems which are likely to arise in Nigeria after the management 'heart transplant'. The article is divided into four major sections. The first examines the origin and scope of the Public Service Review Commis-