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Changing people’s mindset big challenge for ACC

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The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in Zambia has said that the biggest challenge that the Commission has is changing the mindset of people in the country on corruption.

ZANIS Ndola reports that ACC Community Education Officer Masauso Lungu said this when he addressed District heads of government departments at the District Commissioners office today.

“The biggest challenge that the ACC has in Zambia is to change the mindset of everyone towards corruption,” he said.

Mr Lungu said it was regrettable that society had at one point slowly accepted corruption through bribes as a way of life.

He said the offence of corruption was very serious as it dented images of those involved adding that in the long run, the vice frustrated government policies there by retarding development.

Mr Lungu who further bemoaned the increase of corruption among public officers in government offices said it was wrong for public officers to feel as though they were indispensable.

He said that some public officers had turned down promotional transfers to other places just because of the corrupt practices that they were involved in.

He called on the public to join in the fight against the vice so that concerted efforts could restore sanity to the country.

13 COMMENTS

  1. The very source of this problem is in the first place you the ACC. Lead by example and let the people see your lives and prove to society that you are clean. No rhetoric. Twanaka naimwe baka bolala. Your chief is being investigated and just look at the A.G report on financial mismanagement. Why does it end up being a report than being a prosecution oriented document?

  2. The buck starts with ACC itself. First and foremost we need to have personality of high standing, morals and integrity occupying the offices at the ACC. As things stand now, we cannot make meaningful progress. The other area of interest is the ACC act. In its present form, the institution will not tick. There is need to revisit this Act and make necessary amendments in tandem with the present reality.

  3. corruption can not be eliminated by people who are corrupt.thats why you acc are failing to change peoples mind sets.matter of fact this fight is selective,only on chiluba,but was it only in chichis administration that corruption started in zambia?certainly not.theres need to audit all government tranzactions from 1964 to now.theres is also need to give a good salary to civil servant and make end of the sick bureaucracy we have in government.if this is done transparency will be attained,i thank you

  4. This is not an easy task,because even most of those that are educated did it through corruption.Their kids also have joined the band wagon.

  5. Teach the people what they are entitled to upon specific requirements in various circles of life. Set up standards of monitoring. The ACC in the country has been seen to be a victimising organ and not friendly, therefore it is taking them a terrible tall order to get into changing people’s mindset.

  6. Bana bakwithu “Charity begins at home!” The problem of corruption is not in anyway different from HIV/AIDS! It borders on societal behavioural change. All of us have some form of adjusting to do if we expect any meaningful changes on these vices! One area we may consider is to teach our young ones good values to include issues such as corruption in the education curricula. Its is easier to change society if we start with children because they are unspoiled. You cant teach a grown up dog new manners baba! So while we embark on punishing the corrupt adults, let the children learn from school etc while the old ones are being jailed! Namala ndine winu!

  7. Interesting comments in deed. Lets not despare lest we leave the situation as is. we can teach old dogs new trick if and only we come up with teaching techniques appropriate for old dog’d understanding capabilities. It is very logical to start introducing people to evils of corruption at a tender age. And with that, what you teach people at the grass roots, you can only come to realise its benefits if and only if there is political environment that makes achievement of such goeals possible, an economical atmosphere where people are fairly paid and thereby not highly tempted to be unfaithful. All forms of education amout to naughty, unless incorporated with some basic christian values.

  8. It is hard to change people’s mind sets, which comes as a testimony that we need Jesus more than anything else, for it is God alone that can change hearts or attitudes and mind sets. On an individual/ familial or micro level, if we can begin to teach people not only look north, south, east and west but also upwards/heavenwards (to the All Seeing Eye) before involving ourselves into corrupt practices, we will have been on a better way to eradicating the problem of corruption. Let each one of us that love the mother land be the change the we want to around ourselves. Every corrupt society needs men and wemen, at every level of govt,to call corruption by its right name + to expose its evils.

  9. Indeed old habbits dies hard. But things have changed several times in Zambia. From UNIP to MMD it was a great change at all levels of our wellbeing. What zambian needs is a radical policy change and implemntation. Corruption is a punishable office and therefore stiffer penalties must be implemented vigorously and this will start sending signals to wouuld be offenders to think twice before they commit these offences. Overhauling of institutions is must. Chiluba change the whole governance system for his strategy to work (although it was a bad one). The next President should be radical and overhaul the system. LPM has done his best under the circustances and has laid a foundation for a Political Entrepreneur to drive the country forward.

  10. This sounds like a very terrible joke from the ACC, face facts, what is the minimal wage of people working in goverment offices? I assume very pathetic, how can you stop corruption with out raising salaries. Just imagine how much a policeman earns, and needs to support his children, and other relatives. Its just an impossible battle to tackle. There is no employment even worse is that if you dont know somebody in office to give you a job you are doomed. Education is another aspect in which we are failling in for a long time now we had qualified professionals with genuine degrees/diplomas just roaming the street and living in ramshackles unemployed.

  11. The only way people of zambia can live decently is by means of back handers. The cahnge has to start from the top, and anyone found to be abusing office should be prosecuted with no mercy. We have alot of ministers owning farms and busineses which in accordance to the zambian law is pure breaking of the law.
    Were dose the money come from to by these properties.
    This question is directed to the ACC,go and sort you office before you tell the people who are leaving in poverty what to do….

  12. Indeed, punish the corrupt person and in public so that the would be offender will be discouraged.
    Pay the civil servant well. One way of doing this is reduce the salary of the Bank of Zambia governor by 80%, he will still go home with not less than 20 million Kwacha. Does that make sense to you fellow bloggers? 80% reduction and the chap still goes home with not less than twente million. so ninshi afola shinga before 80% reduction? Its these astronomical salary differences that tempt most people to engage in filth businesses just to make ends meet. How can a malonda get 80 pin and you expect this person to lead a normal corrupt free life? Thats why most of the things that get lost in …

  13. … these companies have something to do with the gate keepers. They are corrupt not that they were born like that but becoz they are made to do it by circumstances.
    Govt should also be accountable. How can you year in year out hear the same song from ANA CHIFUNGULA that govts spending was not okay? We dont eat the AUDTITOR GENERALS report, lock up the erring controlling officers so that we see the law at work. Dont just say financial irregularities when its evident that its CORRUPTION at work.

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