Corruption: A Modern-Day Fallacy

 

Growing up my folks always emphasized the ethical value of charity always beginning at home. Back in those days the said proverb normally pushed me and my young brother towards our chore duties. Duty and rules make we humans the ever-evolving species that we are, without them we lie with the animals. A peep down in history will probably tally Corruption hand in hand with duty and rules, it’s not a thing to be amazed by nor is it a shocker, for even the good book in Proverbs says “where there no oxen the troughs are always clean”. But we are the superior specie hence this rule shouldn’t apply to us in its respective order rather, a corrupt free atmosphere is what is expected of every working human being.

So, what is corruption? For the sake of efficacy and the nature of the subject matter and the target perpetrators, I shall shun away from the common definition that involves bribes but rather focus on the literal origin of the word and define it with an air of philosophy. Corruption is the action of moral depravity, with this definition it is easier to see just how appalling the act itself is with or without money as an incentive all it takes is for one to have a moral compass and understand that corruption is the retrogressive act that sends us human back to the days of “eating from the mangers”.

For the longest time in the history of civil service the Police Force of most nations have been known to be the most corrupt of civil servants, from conventional to unconventional, grand to petty, public to private corruption to say the least they have been tainted blue black with most of them losing their careers to the vice. But perhaps we as people have in one way or another boomeranged this vice into our societies without even giving its inception much thought. 

Recently in the Northern part of our great nation an educator and his superior fell from grace when their Adjudicating officer unexpectedly stopped by their stationed school to make a routine inspection and the said workers were nowhere to be found. The infamous duo apparently was at a local shebeen partaking in the unlicensed local brew called Kachasu or moonshine. It’s purported that the subaltern of the two had hardly stepped foot in a classroom since 2021 and 2020 was even worser. Given the fact that he was rubbing elbows (it can’t be shoulders) with his superior the Headmaster of the school, one can only imagine how the whole farce was under wraps for such a long time. Kudos to their adjudicating officer for finally plucking out such depravity from our education system. There are various forms of corruption and the actions of that duo of educators falls under unconventional corruption where for they betrayed the trust of the public whilst still on a government payroll. To top it all, if that is the caliber of educators we are unleashing on the young as a nation then in all honesty we are setting ourselves up for a more dishonesty young generation likely to cut all sorts of corners with no hesitations whatsoever. It is clear that with the various commissions that have been set up regulation will have to be beefed up some more so that such vices are uprooted right from the source lest our societies incur the full wrath of systematic corruption, which is but a stone throw away in these rural setups where high ranking superiors such as Headmasters are none the wiser.

The Police force have had this fight for a long time perhaps it’s time they extended their efforts in making sure that certain establishments are not harboring depraved civil servants good for nothing but wasting tax payers money. It’s so regrettable that workers of such an honored profession could stoop so low as to embarrass an acclaimed fraternity of educators such as the Teaching Commission. Unlike any bribery out there the actions of that duo are the most dangerous act of corruption to date, but all this remains to be seen as corruption still remains a façade masked with bribes and bureaucracy.