Recently, there were many cases of action taken on alleged corrupt practices involving civil servants and non-civil servants. The practices in some of these cases date back many years. In today's paper, the headlines highlight two cases involving a church pastor and a manager of a media company. It seemed that anti-corruption is the order of the day.
I wonder why there are so many corruption cases recently, when there was relative silence in past years. I could guess that the focus must have occurred due to the change of minister for home affairs made after the 2011 general election. Perhaps the previous minister did not consider this matter to be important and the new minister took a different view.
While action against corrupt practices is important, we seemed to go overboard in focusing on this single issue. There are other urgent issues that need to be addressed.
I wonder why there are so many corruption cases recently, when there was relative silence in past years. I could guess that the focus must have occurred due to the change of minister for home affairs made after the 2011 general election. Perhaps the previous minister did not consider this matter to be important and the new minister took a different view.
While action against corrupt practices is important, we seemed to go overboard in focusing on this single issue. There are other urgent issues that need to be addressed.
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