Writing Contest || Corruption, can it be prevented? How?

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It's no news today that corruption is an integral part of the world's way of life, no matter how government officials try to curb it. They are even the one who promote it in view to the leadership and political system of this world. Different countries have their rate of corruption. What could corruption and how bad is it?

I'll define corruption based on what I've seen and heard and know. It is an unethical behavior which isn't condone in a society. It is the misuse or abuse of power entrusted to a particular person for personal gain at the expense of public interest, not even giving consideration to people's right and the integrity of the political system.

Corruption is not just done by people in position of authority politically, but can also be done by mere individuals. Money is given to feed homes in a particular village, but instead of that money to be used for that purpose, it is divided and may be use to do something minor.

Corruption can exist in various forms, socially, politically, economically or otherwise.

• Bribery: This is a common form of corruption worldwide and in fact, one of the commonly used form. Bribery involves accepting gifts or anything material to influence the actions of certain individuals into doing something in their favour, even if they don't merit such.

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• Fraud: This is another major form of corruption that has cost the lives and properties of many. People play fraudulent activities for personal benefits. This van be financially where you scam people of their money or it could be when you falsify documents to achieve a common goal.

• Extortion: It occurs when someone in power or authority uses force or threats to exploit others of their money and other materials for personal benefits. It usually happen to those that have low standard of living with low Educational background.

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• Embezzlement: This happens when someone in an entrusted position of finance misappropriates or steal funds for personal benefy. It's just like a financial manager taking a little money from the company's wallet, claiming nobody would know.

The major causes of corruption are;

• unaccountability and lack of transparency in a system

• poverty and greed are major contributors

• when the rule of law which emphasizes equity is weak

• when there's also inequalities in access to opportunities.
  What can be done to prevent this?

Corruption as I know can't be stopped in Nigeria although it can somehow be prevented only if the governmental sector work on their system. To prevent corruption,

• accountability and transparency must be enhanced in government institutions or even the private and public administration board which can be effectively carried out through financial disclosure requirements. This would make it difficult for corruption to thrive.

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• fostering international cooperation can also help reduce corruption in that, countries can collaborate on effective ways to extradict corrupt individuals, promote international standards and conventions and even learning the best practices from them.

• implementing anti-corruption policies that criminalize corruption and also enacting or establishing clear codes for public officials and implementing anti-bribery measures could also help curb corruption.

• encouraging citizens to participate in anti-corruption, fostering a Culture of ethical behavior and integrity can also help combact corruption. Also not keeping silent when corruption is taking place although it means risk to human life in Nigeria.

• establishing laws and regulations that are comprehensive, laws that define corruption offenses and their penalties can address emerging forms of corruption, thereby curbing it.

Generally, it's risk to human life in my locality to curb corruption. I'll do the following as an individual.

• I'll educate myself as well as others on the risks and consequences of corruption.

• I'll try as much to encourage local government and public administration to advocate transparency and accountability in the system

• I'll also join anti-corruption programs that places emphasis on the eradication of this stain in our country.

There are some users that who use various means to extort steems from other users in form of giveaways. These users if caught are muted from a particular communuity and sometimes published.

• The steemit team has also provided watchers on the platform who checks abnormalities on the platform which includes plagiarism and farming accounts. These two forms of corruption aren't condone on the platform.

We have different forms of corruption on Steemit.

Those who plagiarized or use AI generated content to pollute the platform would first be warned and refusal to accept bor adhere to the warning, you'll be labeled plagiarized and you'll be published by abuse watcher which means you'll barely get support when you post as a plagiarist until you change. You may get muted from posting in the community.

As to farming account which is the usage of multiple accounts to generate income for yourselves. If caught, those accounts would be labeled which means you'll not get support from those Communities

I invite @usoro01, @vudeme123 and @whizzbro4eva

Cc,
@udyliciouz