No Country on Earth is 100% Free from Graft and Corruption...but may be rated as bad, worse, or worst
Posted on Tuesday, 10 May 2016
No
Country on Earth is 100%
Free
from Graft and Corruption
…but
may be rated as bad, worse, or worst
By Apolinario Villalobos
There is no “utopia” or paradise-like
nation on earth. Even the so-called morally-straight and economically-advanced
countries are not free from graft and corruption. All countries, however, may
be classified as to the extent of their contamination by these blights of
civilization into bad, worse, and worst.
What is admirable about the government
officials in some countries, however, is their voluntary act to resign, though
some unfortunately commit suicide, if they are suspected to be involved in
anomalies or even just being investigated, yet. They do not react with shameful
effort and legalistic defenses which happen only in the Philippines.
Still, although, corruption is an accepted
occurrence in any government, in the Philippines, it has reached the
uncontrolled stage. Some government officials who are voted, appointed, and
even with civil service eligibilities seem to be living on the adage, “if
others can do it, why can’t I?”. To
date, cases of graft and corruption in the Philippines takes so many years to
be resolved with some just shelved into oblivion.
In the Philippines, corruption has become a
business. Those who would like to venture into this “endeavor” must put up a
substantial fund during the electoral campaign, while exerting all possible
effort to get the position they want for the assured return of their
“investment”.
Some even enhance their “talent” or “skill”
by taking courses that lead to “government management”, such as, Law or Public
Administration, and still, if time would allow, further enhance their knowledge
acquisition with Masters and Doctorates, the better for them to slap those who
would question their credibility with certificates.
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