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transparency to the public The benchmarks also include mechanisms for engaging and mobilising the public and private sectors in educating, reporting and providing independent support and oversight. Robust set of recommendations The Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said: “Throughout the world, including in member countries of the Commonwealth, corruption continues to undermine social and economic development and have immensely damaging consequences, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable of people and communities. “Our Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Benchmarks are a r...

PUTRAJAYA: The special Cabinet committee on anti-corruption discussed the need to amend the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act to act against those who sell government tenders and projects. It was among the issues discussed during the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday (April 19) here. The Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC) said the amendment was needed to boost integrity and transparency in government procurement and to deter the involvement of parties with vested interests such as cartels. It said the meeting also agreed that the...

Rooting out the mother of all evils Corruption is the gangrene that will eventually destroy the whole body if pre-emptive action is not undertaken. IT’S BEEN sagaciously said that the love of money lies at the root of all evils. Experience tells us that this is so and therefore, it could also be said that the vice of corruption or bribes as an element of the “original sin” of the love of money constitutes a root – as part of the wider root – of all evils. Corruption, understood and defined properly in broad terms and inclusively ranges from the simple giving of a bribe to misapp...