Acting President Yemi Osinbajo says the nation faces a monumental tragedy when civil servants enrich themselves through corrupt practices.
According to Osinbajo, the greatest tragedy a nation can experience is for the civil servants to subvert the system for personal gains when the majority of the citizenry are poor and struggling to make a living.
The acting president was speaking at the Banquet Hall of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday during the inaugural quarterly civil service lecture series themed: "Civil Service in a Change Environment: The Change is Now".
He said: "The power to do great good or evil lies with a few people who form what we refer to as our civil service. When some of such elite see the opportunity as one for self enrichment by corrupt practices, then the nation faces a monumental tragedy.
"There is no excuse anywhere in a nation where the majority are still poor and are struggling to make a living that anyone who has the benefit of good education and good fortune of a job in the civil service should subvert that service for personal gains, I think its the greatest tragedy that a nation can experience".
The acting president reminded the nation's civil servants that sometimes, they "are described as evil servants."
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