It was Chief Anthony Ani, a former Finance Minister of Nigeria, while delivering a lecture in 1997 on accountability, said that accountability is the requirement that government explains and justifies its actions to the people. He goes on to say that accountability ensures that governments are responsible for their actions; that ‘rulers’ at all levels report to the ‘ruled’. A government that consistently informs the people about its actions, that is accountable, generates confidence in the polity, and through this way, a favourable and condulsive environment for the implementation of its programmes. Thus accountability is the soul of good governance; it indeed defines good governance to the core.

Agreed, but it is also the responsibility and duty of every citizen to insure that its government is accountable not only in the representation of its people, but in ethical aspects as well. If the people dont hold government accountable, why should government make it there business to hold themselves accountable?