In many nations around the world, corruption is a serious problem. It is regarded as a weapon of mass destruction that has greatly damaged several nations' public and private sectors.
Several of the factors that contribute to corruption are listed below:
(1) Government size and structure
(2) Political system and democracy
(3) Institutional quality
(4) Economic freedom/openness
(5) Civil service wages
(6) Justice system, press freedom, etc.
In addition to all of the aforementioned factors, I believe corruption in society can be combated at a young age. This means that students should be taught about the negative effects of corruption in society and how it may influence them in the future, outside of the classroom.
When I was a student in the university, I recall that some of my fellow students who were given leadership roles in school organizations embezzled thousands of money into their own pockets. By this, I mean that some of the expenses for improvements to the school that benefited all of us which was mandatory to be paid by every students. Imagine if they had been exposed to millions or billions of money instead of only thousands of it at the time when they embezzled the money, I’m sure they’ll still embezzle more.
Most times, people like that are frequently given the opportunity to serve the public in elected office. When exposed to public finances, a person with a history of embezzlement will always find a method to make off with large sums of money. Before becoming a fully corrupt leader, everything starts in school at an early age. At that point in their lives, a mature individual who has corruption ingrained in their system will find it difficult to let go of it.
However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.
Even while teaching what corruption is and not partaking in it is a good thing, young people have been thought that value by their parents from the beginning or their young age and still most of them end up participating in corrupt practices in their future endeavor but the problem in my view is the system. The system that have ceased to punish those individuals be it Politicians or others that engaged in corrupt practices.
What was done to the students in your school that "embezzled thousands of money into their own pockets" cos you never told us what was done to them and same goes to our Politicians, not within the Government or Subsequent Government do we see some one calling for the punishment of those people. We have heard about countries where persons are executed for some level of corruption, that might not totally stop it but it will drastically reduce it. There must be some hard level of punishment to deter people from committing such crimes else it wont stop, the next person will just be like, what was done to the first person? nothing will be done to me too and the circle continues.
