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 misappropriating and embezzlement of public funds through the procurement process under the cloak of authority, is a cancer that eventually enervates and corrupts society as a whole considered in relation to the entire political and administrative system that enables it to thrive.