Political Corruption and the Effects on Society
Posted on August 3, 2009 - Filed Under Government, Security, Society
Corruption is not only an overt act or practice, but it occurs when one simply does not offer the truth. Keeps the truth hidden. Many people in the world are demanding that the gap between a politician’s public life and their private life and accumulated assets and financial holdings be lessened. The entire legal system is in question, when a politician will avoid legal issues while ensuring that their wealth accumulated through corrupt practices is kept safely off of the shores of their country, in a foreign financial institute. This is currently an issue in Africa, as well as many countries throughout the world. The fact that Africa is riddled with corruption in the political realm, is known throughout the world.
What is questioned ethically and morally, is that when the government of a country has such a difficult time providing the basic needs of the people of their country, as far as enough food for the people to eat and safe water to drink, electricity, plumbing and proper housing…when the officials of such a country can not provide these basic needs, how is it acceptable that there is more that four hundred billion dollars in the Swiss bank accounts of many of Africa’s heads of state. This is a problem that is difficult to tackle and resolve because many are not acknowledging it, and is one of the most dire problems in the country today, and not much has been done, or is being done currently to rectify the situation.
The growth in the economic sector has been on the rise, and much of that growth is owed to foreign investments. However, even as the economy of the country is on the rise, the poverty levels remain the same. Much is reported in the news about the mass starvation and the issues of extreme poverty in Africa, but for some reason the fact that corruption runs rampant throughout the country is never discussed and never considered to associated with the state of the society. This is one of the elements in the simple definition of corruption, that when the officials of a company are involved in corruption, the entire society suffers.
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