The International Community is observing yesterday as Anti-Corruption Day.
It is a day set aside, by the United Nations General Assembly, to raise awareness on the need for a collective fight against corruption.
According to the Oxford advanced learners dictionary, Corruption is the act of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principal.
It comes in various forms such as bribery, lawbreaking without dealing with the consequences in a fair manner, unfairly amendment of election processes and results, among others.
Findings has shown that corruption undermines democracy, creates unstable governments, and sets countries back economically.
According to United Nations-General Assembly, every year about a trillion dollar is paid in bribes, while estimated two point six trillion United States dollars are stolen annually through corruption, which is equivalent to more than five percent of the global Gross Domestic Product.
Describing corruption as a serious crime that can undermine social and economic development in all societies, Mr Joshua Madu regretted that Nigerians often see corruption as way of life, saying that the country can only be free from its present social and economic predicaments if the inhabitants would unite against the practice which has eaten deep into the fabrics of the country.
For Some residents of Awka, including Mrs Chinelo Emebo, Miss Amarachi Kasie, and their Nnewi counterpart, Mrs Lovelin Sunday leaders at all levels, including parents should be in the forefront of the war against the ill practice, as they blame the continuous rise of the act in today’s society on the leaders and parents, who according them are the most guilty of the act.
They enumerated creation of job opportunities for the teaming youths, retiring of people within retirement age from civil service to create chances for the young ones, training of children in the way of God by the parents, and stricter measures against corruption, as some of the ways of curbing the menace in the society.
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