Having gone through civil war
for decades, Cambodia, an impoverished developing country, is now confronting
an inevitable corruption matter which is a frustrating element for our country
development because corruption may be defined as the abuse of public position
for personal gain or for the benefit of an individual or group to whom
one owes allegiance.
Firstly, corruption plays an indispensable
role in diminishing the human resources because it has been deteriorating the
educational system. Cambodian teachers are paid low wage, as a result they
sometimes don’t instruct students from the bottom of their heart and don’t
proctor alertly while students are taking test. Rampant cheating and paying
money to teachers or school principals to pass exam are very rife; therefore,
Cambodian students’ capacities are far different from foreign students’ because
of these egregious activities. Meanwhile, many boundary officials takes money
from drug smugglers in an exchange for granting them authority to traffic drugs
like cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana freely leading to an increasing
number of drug addicts, crucially among students who will be future leaders or
country builders.
Secondly, corruption could have been a
scarecrow to intimidate many honest international investors away from our
region. When they invest in our community, there would have been many steps to
achieve their goals because they need to provide the under-the-table costs to
some high-level officials in order to pave ways for their trading. Thus, if
they don’t, their business won’t pay off. In contract, you see many garment
factories built up to invest in our country because those places have no
corruption or little corruption. Besides, in other provinces we haven’t seen
much investment; however, in some remote areas we can see some investment such
as rubber plantation, cassava plantation, and other plantations as a result of
getting economic land concession. That investment scarcely profits or serves
the people or our nations and even exploits people or nations benefits because
its inadequate economic land concession overlaps people’s land and dense
forest.
Thirdly, corruption can divert public
financial and material resources away from the public use for which they are
intended because such money should go to the Finance Ministry, to bestow for
the people, through corruption is instead go to the pockets or banking accounts
of a few powerful government officials at the expend of the people. In fact, it
can be clearly experienced that schools or health centers lack materials or
equipment for students or citizens because money for buying such things
vanished. Donor communities won’t provide us aids to assist the poor because
they discern that their money or their citizens’ money will be used unsuitably,
so the interval between the poor and the rich will be very huge.
Finally, corruption can lead
to judicatory unfairness and devastate factual evidences. Many indigent
citizens or victims rarely gain fairness or justice from judges inasmuch as
other parties have much money to bribe them and, sometimes, plaintiff can be a
defendant because of the influence of money. On the other hand, affluent
perpetrators can be released from custody because they have money to eliminate
their wrongdoing or they are relative of high-ranking officials. As seen above,
corruption takes variety of forms: bribery, nepotism, diversion of public
revenue and so on.
To sum up, corruption has been deemed as a
weapon to demolish our nations and as long as corruption still exists in our
country, our chances to ameliorate our country development or to alleviate
poverty are unattainable, so we must fight against corruption.
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