IN every country, the government has an ongoing battle with corruption, to constantly find ways of staying ahead of the game but this doesn’t often happen. In cases where corruption is found, measures are put in place to deal with it and to prevent it from occurring again.
In Guyana, this seems no different. While corruption to some extent is found in some agencies, there have been efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice and clamp down on further acts. PPP/C Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar remarked sometime ago that government made a mistake in not purging the public service of corruption when it took office in 1992. Mr. Ramotar also said recently that if persons are found guilty of corruption then the law should be allowed to take its course.
While there may be cases of pockets of corrupt officers in some agencies and organisations, this does not mean the entire organisation is corrupt. Amazingly, there have been many cases of persons throwing around accusations of corruption but yet they fail to provide evidence to enable the relevant agencies to pursue the alleged corrupters. If there is talk of corruption and no evidence is provided to support the claims then what can be done by anyone?
The government has taken steps to tackle corruption which similarly deserves mention, but we must understand that everything takes time. And weeding out the bad eggs will also take time.