December 17
THE single word “corruption” is a severely destructive weapon to deteriorate society. Only when all members of the society avoid the acts of corruption but take the measures of anti-corruption will the whole society enjoy the fruits of peace and tranquillity.
The service personnel on the duty of the State in all sectors need to avoid the acts leading to corruption and focus on the public interests only. The act of bribery is a primary root cause of corruption. In fact, corruption is based on desire, anger, fear and ignorance.
Actually, corruption is an act of abusing the authority entrusted by the people for serving their interests. The root causes of many corruption cases are the extreme entrusting of individual authority and power, adoption of complicated rules and regulations for the authority, lack of techniques in effectively monitoring the acts of rationality, and lack of responsibilities for decisions.
The government needs to adopt anti-corruption policies to solve the problems of corruption. So, the government has already enacted the anti-corruption rules and is implementing the national anti-corruption strategies to raise the knowledge awareness of the people on anti-corruption measures, prevention against corruption and taking action against violators.
As the corruption hampers the development of the State as well as undermines prevailing peace and stability, cases of corruption were exposed in the country to take action against the violators under the law. As such, the governmental departments and organizations set up the corruption-prevention units to minimize the corruption cases rather than now.
In order to emerge a righteous and honest culture in the society, only when the people in individuals participate in the anti-corruption measures will their workplaces and environs be shaped as a society with honesty free from corruption.
Public participation plays a crucial role in the implementation of the anti-corruption strategies in scrutinizing the corruption problems and beefing up the reform process. It is important that any programmes to reduce corruption cases must admit all the persons who had faced losses in corruption. It is necessary to mention the directives, rules and regulations understandable for the people.
The global countries are packing the burden of corruption till today. But, those countries, including Myanmar, should struggle with the corruption problems as much as possible for shaping better societies respectively.GNLM
