Given that the performance appraisal plays a role, albeit a minor one (at least it is considered one criteria for promotion), it follows that individuals may indulge in ethnicity for the sake of having favourable results posted on their performance appraisal records. In fact, a senior civil servant intimated that he himself is aware of some officials in his ministry who have been beneficiaries of such tendencies. He is however quick to add that the practice is neither widespread nor condoned. It is hardly revealed and is therefore an insidious factor in undermining the effective implementation of the performance appraisal.