Corruption is all over the place

Aug 26, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Some bloggers in SN sympathised with the immigration officer who is charged for corrupt transactions as a Government agent.

Too often, we hear of how these people are working for low wages, which caused them to become corrupt.
Well, I have very bad news for those who think so.

It matters not how much these people are paid, they will continue to take bribes to enhance their bankrolls and lifestyles.

If the job is low-paying, why not seek higher paying jobs elsewhere, and let the honest people do the work for an honest living?

Like the police woman at Cove and John with a speed radar gun in hand, stopping drivers for going over the speed limit by just two kmph.

Where on earth is it speeding when you are driving just two kmph over the speed limit? Then the good police lady had the nerve to tell the driver to leave a raise with her. Is this police lady underpaid, too?

You do the maths; what if this good police lady had stopped 25 drivers for the day and received one thousand from each driver?

Everyone who takes a job knows the wages in advance, so the low-wages argument is out the window.
These people know why they take certain jobs in the first place.

Like some would say, people have to steal because they can not find a job. Then those same thieves turned out to be rapist/killers. Is it because they can not find jobs?

No, a criminal is a criminal, and that is the only way it must be seen. Like I said before, and I will say it again and again.

Government must take some blame for corruption in Government offices. This Government has now been 16 years in power, and corruption continues.

What would it take for Government to do sting operations to catch the corrupt ones of this world, and not only remove them from office, but jail them, too?

Police officers asking for bribes are a plague in Guyana for certain sectors of Guyanese society.
Has it ever occurred to the SN bloggers that these people take low-paying jobs knowing that there are tremendous perks behind those jobs?
T. King