By: Péricles Tavares
Africa-Press – Cape verde. Corruption takes root in society and the political class in all its representative dimensions, and not even the people escape. In short, it is entrenched in all classes. The phenomenon of lack of cultural and moral ethics in sociological principle, in Cape Verde at the present time, is linked to corruption and bribery.
Corruption is a criminal act that threatens the rule of law regarding relations between public administration and citizens, with serious damage to the process of economic development and, consequently, to the markets.
In short, corruption occurs when an agent, an identity invested with increased and dominant responsibility, such as politicians in public service, the government bourgeoisie, and other stakeholders, allow and admit to bringing to themselves dubious advantages in exchange for services provided. favors reprehensible by the Law being implemented, whether internally or externally.
Corruption in Cape Verde has become a banal concept, exempt from punishment in a country where justice does not prevail nor awaits the practicable procedure. However, it also involves acts of fraud, bribery, embezzlement of funds belonging to the entire country, by a gross official in fulfillment of public duty, executive visibility and notoriety.
From the statistical ratio it is concluded that there are agents throughout this world, heads of state and government (ministers, diplomats) splashed with the striking and irremovable corruptive stain and active corruption, where the public servant, passively, receives or demands for himself or for the benefit of third parties something in exchange for “help” here and there.
It is possible to combat corruption and fraud in the public administration of the state, in Cape Verde and in the global world, in an indiscriminate, widespread and systematic way without hesitation or respite, through prevention and transparency, through the inspection of public expenditure expenditure and the presentation results, costs and benefits.
Fighting corruption in Cape Verde is a concern that is the sole responsibility of the ministry of justice and public security, through the fight against drug trafficking and money laundering, and the fight against financing and corruption in all its territorial and social dimensions.
When a public manager, for example a governor, partially diverts public funds, everyone’s money, for his benefit, creates an imbalance of productivity to unproductivity and discredits governance, generating a crisis of discontent and increasing inequalities between citizens , increasing violence, a genuinely Cape Verdean scenario.
Corruption in the Cape Verdean archipelagic territory is an undesirable and condemnable evil for the people, being a denigrated stain on the provision of services, and interferes with the principle of dignity conquered and conferred by the Constitution of the Republic of Cape Verde. Widespread corruption vandalizes good coexistence among today’s citizens and desperately threatens the hope of continuity for generations to come.
Corruption is present in Cape Verde, with the negative effects as a result visible to all, with the destabilization of the national economy with the risk and high production cost of the deficit in business investment, with the increase in unemployed people and a lack of employability resulting in poverty.
Corruption takes root in society and the political class in all its representative dimensions, and not even the people escape. In short, it is entrenched in all classes. The phenomenon of lack of cultural and moral ethics in sociological principle, in Cape Verde at the present time, is linked to corruption and bribery.
In Cape Verde in the nineties, the nation was assaulted by corrupt tyrants in the guise of cosmetic democrats, neo-colonialist kleptocrats who tried to multiply international gifts into riches that were then shared among cronies, without reflecting on the future of the people and subsequent generations.
We must pay attention to the wise teaching of King Solomon: “ With a fair government, the people feel safe, but when the scoundrel government applies the tax system cruelly and divides the fat poorly, the nation becomes poor. The government extends a needy hand , flatters the benevolent state, and sooner or later falls into the trap it devised, pays the price for sin, while the sensible ruler, the honest statesman, lives with the people in a state of freedom and happiness” .
Cape Verde needs urgent and emerging investment under the responsibility of dynamic, competent and serious actors, to gain trust and credibility with international managers and investors and must, for all possible purposes, eliminate and reduce installed corruption to zero.
Who is being talked about in a certain parade and hears the unfair sentence as justification, “the people deserve the government they have”? Perhaps the ruler, if he were up to the task of applying decent justice to everyone’s satisfaction, would have a blessed government. But, in the opposite case, the government deserves the people it has, since the governed sleep and wake up in safety and continue to survive without surprises, nightmares with abundance and sanity, without knowing where they are going. An excellent government, without a doubt.
Africa, in all its continental and territorial dimension, is privileged with immense and differentiated natural riches, and does not assert itself as an economic power due to the excessive corruption that plagues the African individualist mind and understanding, waiting to be a zealous Africanist. Europeanists know its corruptive nature, starting with the barbecue and abundant wine followed by tender praise.
Cape Verde is in the corruption ranking among the least corrupt states in Africa, occupying 35th (thirty-fifth) place in the line of criminal rulers who are friends of others, who take for themselves the cost of their publicly visible pleasures in the OGE (General Budget of the State), including millions for expenses when traveling abroad without justifiable reason in certain cases, where a videoconference session is enough to solve the problem and add savings to those in permanent need.
In Cape Verde, the corrupt people with impunity are those against the country, undesirable bribe-takers and servants of the public cause who do not deserve to be considered citizens with equal rights, but rather nationals considered and kept below drug traffickers and robbers on public roads.
Cape Verde is committed, through its government, to the fight for the conservation of the planet and climate change, without succumbing to contagious corruption in the state apparatus, where the scourge of hunger and thirst insists on annihilating every living being, And not only. As well as on the African continent, which by the grace of fate does not pollute, and yet suffers the consequences of industrialized states consuming fossil fuels on a larger scale, with all the debris thrown and abandoned into the tides and oceans, and ending up in the sea in the beaches of the archipelago.
Cape Verde, the homeland that is home to all Cape Verdeans without corruption, where no one satisfies the need for food by resorting to rubbish dumps spread over flies and stray dogs, because there would be enough bread for less than half a million inhabitants, with the highest population concentration in Greater Praia, the urban capital of Cape Verde.
The corrupt rulers, insensitive children of the Cape Verde Islands, endowed with a spirit of greatness, do nothing to minimize the suffering of the people who passed a certificate of trust on promises to dream of better days of peace and happiness and in return the reward that receive is one of contempt and intolerance, with a government contracting debt and the miserable people starving with donated rice stored in a state of putrefaction.
The constitution dictates that the government is subordinate to the People, that all power emanates from the people. So who’s in charge? The people? Or a constitutional normative epidemic of such a fallacious conspiracy of profound tasteless national political popularity?
There are no perfect states throughout history, they are all corrupt, some more, others less, in one way or another. If it is not internally corrupt, it covers external corruption, and together, all governments at a global level are authentic corrupt people in disguise, corrupting one another, with the weak states of mindless politicians being the most infected.
Fighting corruption in Cape Verde is a reality that convinces us that it is still an undesirable, alarming and worrying situation of effective dimension, spreading to political power, with its epicenter in political parties when in electoral competition, with the purchase of votes in disrespect for electoral rules.
The People’s representatives encourage alleged corruption, fraudulent enrichment, becoming a vehicle that leads them to the National Assembly, to government officials and to the entire national elective body, without admiration given the electoral system, governance and the interdependence of powers.
It is possible to separate the cause of the slow death, but, for sure, the fall of the Republic’s powers is inevitable. For when it is up to the suffering people to decide according to their dignified will, but it will not continue.
Once upon a time (2013), an organization was created that was intended to combat corruption, and which instead played the role of fattening and encouraging corrupt and nepotists in the Cape Verdean public square to commit white-collar crimes, covered with impunity.
Zé di The polite politician is making good use of the vast amount in the coffers that never ends and there is nothing left to keep Cape Verdean families out of food shortages. This anomalous situation cannot persist in the republic to which we belong and honor to defend.
Prevention against corruption, combating the corrupt, legislating and creating severe punitive norms to subjugate the corrupt to order, declared guilty and accomplices in courts, and sentenced to serve the sentence in equality and equality with the national citizen who failed to do duty without extra benefits, and confiscation of illicit assets and returned to the common defender, the state, are the main measures that must be adopted to put an end to the widespread corruption in Cape Verde.
Currently, in the republic of Cape Verde, those responsible for government placed at the head of the public administration are authentic disobedient, disorderly outsiders and fugitives from the law, and public judicial orders do not provide accounts, nor do they declare assets acquired and accumulated annually so that the people know of the fortunate state of the class that was expected to be exemplary and never sneaky vampires in Cape Verde or even abroad.
Cape Verde, with good intentions, must trigger adequate and decisive mechanisms in the achievement and implementation of a strong republican rule of law, endowed and capable of powers, where magistrates, including national security agents, demonstrate that they are all engaged in formal and punctual annihilation of corruption. The global nation thanks you, and so be it!
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