Effect of Control on Public Bureaucracy in Nigeria: The Abia State Experience, 2007-2015

Abstract

This study is centred on the premise that the political class with the instruments of authority wields a lot of influence over the public bureaucracy and thereby controls their mechanism of operation and communication. This control has often raised comments and controversies over the neutrality of the public bureaucracy. Evidence abounds on how institutional and structural apparatus has been put in place as veritable instruments through which the public bureaucracy operate. Use in controlling the public bureaucracy. Using the structural functional theory as propounded by able Almond, the study revealed how public bureaucracy is controlled by the political class; findings were made as the kind of machinery that has been used for body control, the agencies of government involved in the control and the effects of such control on the live general; finally, conclusion and recommends were made for the research.