Etcetera II

And this year, despite all the promises, has proved to be no different. In fact, the situation is presumably a great deal worse because the amounts of money available to government Ministries and Departments and parastatals to lose or misappropriate, increases year-by-year.

In other words, the rot is endemic in government and, self-discipline or no, has proved to be incapable of cure. But how can this possibly be so? If those 5Ds are to have real meaning, they have to be applied from the top downwards.