Fighting corruption requires a pandemic-like response
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What do corruption and the COVID-19 pandemic have in common? They both have deep and widespread repercussions for development in all countries. If appropriate curtailment measures are not taken on time, the pandemic will rage across the entire population with its impact felt by future generations.
Corruption has a similar effect on economic, political, and social spheres within countries. If it continues, it impacts the government’s transparency and accountability and its reputation, eroding trust internally and globally.
In April, Datuk Seri Azam Baki, the Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission was quoted as saying: “as someone who has been in the line of fighting corruption for a long time, it is at a rate that is worrying me”, just short of calling it a pandemic.
19 May 2021 / 15:47 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has completed 29 of the 115 initiatives in the National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP) 2019-2023 as of Dec 31 last year.
MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki (pix) said the other 86 initiatives were still in progress.
“Acknowledging that coordinated efforts are crucial to ensure holistic preventative measures for corruption, Malaysia has roped in the involvement of various key stakeholders as lead agencies to implement the initiatives under the NACP.
“MACC is the main agency responsible for implementing this plan and is tasked with the leading role in the initiatives,” he said when delivering his keynote address at the World Bank East Asia and Pacific Launch of Global Flagship Report, aired live on Facebook World Bank Malaysia here today.
Its chief Datuk Seri Azam Baki (
pic) said 29 of the 115 initiatives spelt out in the plan had been implemented while 86 others were works in progress.
“Acknowledging that coordinated efforts are crucial to ensure holistic preventive measures for corruption, Malaysia has roped in various key stakeholders as lead agencies to implement the initiatives under the NACP, ” he said on Wednesday (May 19) in a keynote address at an event organised by the World Bank.
The NACP, which was launched by then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in January 2019, aims to make Malaysia a corruption-free nation by 2023.
At the online launch of the “Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption” report, Azam said NACP s vision was to create a corruption-free nation through three specific goals.
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Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali regretted that some civil servants had allowed themselves to be used by unscrupulous people for the sake of getting big kickbacks. Bernama pic
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PUTRAJAYA, April 6 The Public Service Department (JPA) has been directed to implement work rotation for officers holding sensitive posts which expose them to issues of corruption, said Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali.
In a statement issued today in response to news reports on the crippling of a syndicate monopolising government tenders, Mohd Zaki regretted that some civil servants had allowed themselves to be used by unscrupulous people for the sake of getting big kickbacks.