CIVIL SERVANTS AND GRAFT

Salam,

I am not very sure whether this news come out in any other newspaper because I read this fro, The Malaysian Insider. A very alarming news that should be made known to all the civil servants out there in whatever way. It was reported in the internet news portal that 2 fifths of civil servants in Malaysia were suspected to be involved in corruption in 2009. It means that 418,000 or 41% of the civil servants are involved. To make it worst, majority of the civil servants in Malaysia are Muslims and majority of them are Malays. This is terribly worrying for all of us.

If this is true, this is very important for all of us to ponder what actually happen in our system? When the Cuepacs president came out with this statement, it could be quiet accurate and reliable. This people are the backbone of the governments. They are the faces and the bodies of our government. They are the one who are working for the sake of all Malaysian and they are the one who carry out hundreds of policies of our government. This is a terrible illness that can drag all of us into calamities.

If the machine is spoil, it can spoil everything in the system. Corruption means that there is no way justice and fairness can be carry out to the people. No way we can get the best from the system. No way they can be efficient. No way people will believe on them and no way they can deliver.

What has going wrong then? Why this kind of illness so rampant. 2 fifths is not a small numbers. 41% to be more clear. At the same time it affected all the civil servants. The way people will look at them will be totally different. Even the doctors that are consider the people with the highest rating of people confidence will be affected. If this is the picture, the whole system will collapse. It is such a terrible news for all the servants in whatever field they are.

The perception of the people will worsen and like it or not, they will be treated just like criminals instead of a respected government front-liners. They will be treated as bad as what the current government is suffering that is full of allegation of corruptions, cronyism, nepotism, unfair and whatever bad connotations that can be apply.

The fight of corruption should be the biggest war for the government. This corruption culture is too much for our small country. This is too much for our future generation and too much for all of us. We should do everything that we can to stop the rot. It is just unimaginable how good we will be if the civil service is corrupt-free. We can be a developed country with first class mentality in no time.

Should we all wake up from this nightmare? We all should. Stop the rot now and make this country a better place to be. Corruption is the mother of all terrible things in the world and we should hit it with all our might fast and hard

May Allah helps us.