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“Normal” Corruption In The Ghanaian Public Service Hindering National Development, George E. Ekeha

George E Ekeha

Corruption, according to wikipedia, may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement and can be classify as petty, grand and systemic. Government, or political, corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for his or her own personal gain. Corruption breaks your trustworthiness, your good reputation with others, and when you corrupt something that is pure or honest, you take away those qualities. The issue of corruption has dominated many sectors of the Ghanaian Public Service in recent times. A careful look through the Auditor General’s reports over the years show the recklessness among …