But let’s admit it, many people are corrupt in their own ways, from the maid who steals food or spends her time watching television instead of cleaning, the receptionist who spends hours on end chatting to friends about the weekend shenanigans, the driver who uses the company car to do personal errands, government officials who need a bribe to get anything done to the big boss who dips from the coffers, gives tenders to relatives or buddies, to politicians who do nothing but waste taxpayers’ money and walk scotch free from allegations of corruption.
In Botswana, issue of nepotism, tribalism, brown envelope dealing, sexual favours and bribery are the more rampant than we care to admit. The irony is that Batswana always cry foul over corruption, forgetting that the top brass are not an entity from Mars. They are people who were socialized in our communities, so chances are they picked up these habits. It’s like when a child grows up opening the fridge and taking whatever he finds which he wants, but when he’s older, you suddenly reprimand him or her for her for that habit.
