The project of knowledge production, in academia, goes as far back as the onset of humanity's curiosity about the nature of reality. This is with reference to, both, the physical and social realities that led to the birth of the natural and the human or social sciences. Public administration, as one of the management and social sciences, and just like the sister disciplines, has been dogged by a multiplicity of research ethics challenges for years on end. These challenges range from the manner in which some pedigreed scholars, research leaders, supervisors and students handle the knowledge production process, more especially in relation to their treatment of their protégés and subjects of the research process to the blatant violation of the basic principles of research ethics. The basic principles of ethics postulate the imperative of respecting the value of the community of life, the promotion of goodness over badn