I sit down and weep for my nation, not because we are helpless but because we are shameless especially when it comes to financial and economic corruption.
Trust me , every country battles corruption, as long as there are humans who have needs corruption is a potential for any "ethnos".
We are not better than our so called leaders, they are just a sample of US. Many of them vowed never to be corrupt and didn't know the extent of the potential seed already planted in them by our shameless system over the years until the opportunity to be financially corrupt showed up.
I have the potential to be corrupt, you have the potentials to be too. However the reason we may not be at this point may be that the opportunity has not presented it self to you. This is my advice, to be corrupt free, 2 basic things must be addressed deliberately and personally before the opportunity presents itself.
1. The issue of character which includes values like integrity, loyalty, faithfulness, love, honesty, justice etc
2. Competence which includes creativity, purpose discovery,hard work, thinking, the Entrepreneurial spirit, meditation, value creation etc
To deal with corruption at a national level is to deal with it at a personal level. If the 2 aforementioned is bankrupt in your life I can say to you without any iota of doubt YOU ARE CORRUPT, note my words I did not say you will be corrupt, you are corrupt ALREADY, you are just waiting for the opportunity to present itself.
The second scenario is, if you are deficient of either of them, for me that's the real problem. It is quite difficult to have a person who is void of both competence and character at the same time in a high degree, how ever for a country like ours we have them a lot because over time we have rewarded mediocrity so there's is no incentive for excellence.
This is my gist: if you celebrate character at the expense of competence as most good people ( church and mosque) do, at the point of choice making you may succumb to external pressure from those you love, wife and children, who may be going through a lot of pain and deprivation. Many good people have dropped their " goodness" at the door post of corruption because they couldn't stand the pains of neglect, lack and poverty in their life's and those of whom they love,when Corruption opportunity showed up.
Also for those who place very high premium on competence than character, their fight will be against the Almighty Greed, so even if they have enough to abound, out of lack of character they can go to all length to accrue more than its necessary per time when Corruption knocks at their door.
Dear friend lets start today to develop our Character and Competence so we can have the capacity to say NO to corruption when the opportunity shows up. Trust me on this, no matter how determined, no matter how you say you hate corruption, no matter how much you preach or speak against it, if you don't develop these 2 C's now, you will join the millions of Shameless Corrupt people in this country. I rest my case for now.
PGU
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