Bureaucratic Corruption on Devolved Units on Hard - Core Infrastructural Service Delivery: Case of Lake Region Economic Block, Kenya
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Dr. Thomas Otieno Juma , Fred Omweri Siambe ,
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Abstract
The interest in devolving government services arose from the bottlenecks posed by hitherto centralized governments where bureaucracy among regime holders became in excess to undo its merits in service delivery but to a greater extent evolving into bureaucratic corruption on premium projects – infrastructure. This paper asks whether infrastructural service delivery will suffice in the bigger Lake Region Economic Block (LREB) when cases of corruption have been repeatedly associated to the devolved units as they are now. The study was aided by three objectives centering on the nature, the extent, and correlation of bureaucratic corruption to hard – core infrastructural service delivery in the LREB. Using a qualitative study from a cross section of decentralized systems, the study found out that indeed among devolved units, bureaucratic corruption (BC) exist and it takes different forms spreading through the structure of devolved units and much to this there is a general marked correlation to premium projects. On this basis, generalization can made that the on progress Lake Region Economic Block, Kenya if not properly provided with checks and balances from the onset, could enhance BC than benefit citizens economically as a block.
Keywords
Bureaucracy/ Bureaucratic Corruption/ Corruption/ Devolved Units/ Hardcore Infrastructure/ Service Delivery/ LREB
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