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PETTY CORRUPTION People in power have the tendency of taking advantage of the power that is given to them. In most cases this advantages are taken under the expense of those that are at lower ranks such as employees, members of the society and these tendencies is referred to as Petty corruption. Petty corruption entails offering small sums of money in order to get small services performed in a speedy fashion, paying extra over the required amount or paying for services that are supposed to be free to the public. Petty corruption includes bribes in rendering social services, kickbacks with the police and licensing officers, magistrates, doctors and clerks; sex accompanied by promises to seekers of employment and political office. In most countries civil workers such as police services are familiarized with such conduct, giving an example if one is charged for over-speeding a police officer will ask that person to give them a certain amount of money so that they are not given a ticket for that charge. In some countries prostitution is not legal, in such countries the police takes advantage of these sex workers and ask them for sex so that they do not arrest them, in a way this is corruption it as no difference with those that ask for sexual favors from candidates so that they can employ or give them promotions at their work place. The employing of one’s relatives without taking them through a formal recruitment and selection process also falls under petty corruption, as the employer does that knowing that they are somehow going to benefit from that employee. Petty corruption is a serious matter as its effects are real and can lead to serious consequence as one can end up losing their job or being jailed.

SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHING Imagine your own parents, the people who are supposed to be taking care of you turning into thieves in the name of love. They would put on a smile knowing that deep down their hearts their mission is to rob you and leave you with nothing. When trying to get inside the mind of our so called government, I only find a bunch of greed hypocrites and power hungry people who are never satisfied with what they have. All in all one can call ‘a recipe of corruption’, but yet in the eyes of other nations Botswana is seen as the most pure country in terms of corruption. I doubt these countries were told the exact truth about us. Recently tertiary students became the victims of corruption. Their book allowance went missing, in their efforts of voicing out their views the people who are supposed to be helping them in the issue threatened to destroy their careers. This issue was never solved even to date. Ironically Cancer, the silent killer is better than these greedy guys in the high places. They worked so silently in snitching money from the Botswana meat commission. BMC was found to be having several bank accounts which were unknown to the government and other involved parties. Nepotism, fraud, bribery and fake tenders will soon be used to construct our national anthem and our value of Botho.! Why are people sleeping in their laurels, its high time somebody wakes up and smells the coffee, kick fight and throw this bastard mentality out the window.

OUR ROTTEN WAYS Has corruption become a norm for Botswana? , will Botswana reach its goal of being a developed country? ,why is Botswana Beef no longer marketable at Europe? , above all the question was ‘what is happening at BMC?’ These are some of the questions that were running in the minds of most Batswana to which no one could answer The Department of veterinary Service (DVS) is the regulator of all animals in Botswana including cattle, and one could state that Botswana Meat Commission (BMC)’ s success depends on it. Whatever regulation or command that the DVS brings out BMC must obey, however Mr Letlhogile modisa ,the Director of DVS turned a blind eye on his relation with BMC and stated that there was no way that his department could be associated with BMC’s failure forgetting that BMC once lost P300 000.00 due to an e-mail that he sent directing BMC to destroy 42 cattle after one animal was found without its identifying BOLUS. All these problems caused by the DVS’s regulations, the BOLUS and its failure meant that BMC could not satisfy the European market requirement and it did not to rely much on Botswana’ s beef which lead to the down fall of BMC, and all the blame must be on DVS. The Department of veterinary Service and the Botswana Meat Commission will always be siblings no matter what, they are working on related issues. The other one depend on the other so what they need to do is to work together and appreciate each other, in that way peace, love and productive will be used to identify our economy.

WHO SUFFERS? People take corruption lightly as they sometimes do not understand the damages that come along with it. Corruption affects a country’s economy and individual citizens of a particular state. Corruption can go to an extent of creating a bad reputation of a country, to which can create bad inter-relations between states. For instance as Botswana is known of having good relations with China, if Botswana was associated with any kid of corruption and china gets to know about it, it might decide to cut its associations with Botswana. Corruption can give birth to unemployment. For an examples when an organization become bankrupt due to corruption people can end up losing their jobs if it happens that the organization closes. Due to the fact that the number of tax payers has gone down the country’s economy will suffer. Political instability is one of the effects of corruption. Ruling parties in most countries have the tendency of misusing government’s funds and in such situations the opposition parties can cause chaos as a way of showing that they are not happy with the way things are and that they can do something better if they were the ones ruling that particular state. People do not understand that corruption affects us all and that corruption is the main root of poverty in many African countries. When a country’s funds are used fairly without anyone wanting to use them for their personal benefits there will never be such as high unemployment rate, political instability in countries and may be countries will have trust among each other and relate well.

CORRUPTION Corruption is the misuse of entrusted forprivate gain. Petty corruption involves people and means at lower scale and rates, however frequent. This entails offering of small sums of money in order to get small services performed in a speedy fashion – in essence, paying extra over the required amount – or for services that are supposed to be free to the public.Grand corruption involves big or massive transactions through, among others, contracts and concessions. It can be in construction, purchase, provisions and mining. The media is considered to be a force in improving quality government through reporting about the existence of corruption in the society.

There are different techniques that journalists use to go about corruption cases. Among all, journalists use what they see happening in the society and try to connect the dots of what is realy happening. They use observation to assess the situations, this helps them to get their facts rights. On the other hand, other journalists interview the victims of corruption as a way of trying to get facts of the corruption case at the hand. For example a journalist can decide to interview a person who has been bribed by the government officials. Some journalists opt to plot cameras where nobody can see them so that they can have evidence of a suspected corruption case. For most, journalists use human sources to investigate on corruption cases. In conclusion a successful journalists need to have good techniques in order to produce good writings in reporting about corruption.