Answer to Question #207477 in Law for Rocky

Question

How does corruption impact on service delivery? (125 words, 5 marks)

Answer 1

The key consequences of procurement corruption on service delivery are as follows, corruption affects the quality of services offered to the citizens, corruption diverts government revenues, corruption affects the economic growth of the country, it leads to loss of confidence in public officials, and it also breeds impunity and dilutes the public. It can be concluded that making guilty officers to refund, improvement in accountability and transparency, strong and independent judiciary revision of laws and acts on procurement and inception of e-procurement systems might be the measures to be taken to eradicate public procurement corruption in order to provide optimum service delivery which would ultimately accelerate the pace to uplift the country to a middle income country.