Small things can be big
Posted
News about corruption is not new to me. Being under an administration that’s eager to stop or at least lessen the corruption, these events are usual. However, I think there is something wrong. I notice that high ranked officials are the only investigated, impeached, convicted and kicked out to their positions. How about those who are at the local government? To feed my curiosity, I search about how was corruption at local positions.
I was shocked on what I found out. I read Mayors top list of officials facing corruption cases by
Michael Punongbayan. It was about the number of cases filed against certain
branch of the government to the Office of the Ombudsman. It turned out that
city and municipal mayors topped the list with 2,075 cases about the
anti-graft. The list was followed by different departments, bureau, commissions
and agencies. Precisely, mayors are too many and if every one of them is
corrupt, it will be a very big problem. As he said, “City and municipal mayors
topped the list of government officials with the most number of cases filed
against them before the Office of the Ombudsman last year.” means that we must
not only focus who are on top, the high ranked officials. Diminutive or immense
type of corruption is still a corruption.
Big things are from little things so we must not
overlook small time corruptions. This issue will not be resolve if we are only
catching the big crocodiles because time will come that the small ones will be
as big as others.
This entry was posted
on 10:33 AM
.
You can leave a response
and follow any responses to this entry through the
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
.