Blue Ocean Strategy: A Panacea to the Menace of Bureaucratic Corruption in Nigeria

Abstract

The misplacement of official interest for personal benefit that has characterized the Nigeria bureaucratic settings has in no small way curtailed the extent to which national development is achieved. Blue ocean strategy represents an alternative approach to the conduct of public business in such a way it blocks all the major avenues for looting public treasury as well as the enhancement of effective and efficient service delivery. Exploring the current failures in our health institutions it appears that numerous factors have continued to militate against their effective service quality. Despite the huge amount of money voted yearly for the development of the health sector in the national budget, the sector has remained a mere shadow of itself. This paper adopts a stratified sampling technique and use questionnaire to extract response from the respondents. The result of the analysis reveals that the level of corrupt practices in the health sector has led to the diversion of fund from the procurement of medical equipment to private pockets, hence the inadequacies of medical equipment in the various public health institutions.). It is therefore recommended that stewardship function and improved management support system should be incorporated in the activities of the public service.