Whistleblower protection is exigent

Their crime, the DCEC said, is that the informants reported suspicious activities of corruption to the crime busting organisation. In the same statement, the DCEC further warned that threatening an informer is a serious offence for which the perpetrator can be put in jail. It is important to note that whilst the DCEC and other government departments are working hard to eliminate corruption in the country, such efforts are equivalent to naught in the absence of a law protecting whistleblowers. Almost every week, a government ministry or department is launching an anti-corruption policy as a means of fighting the scourge. We submit that corruption cannot be fought without the fortifying support of an Act of Parliament that assures people that they will get themselves into trouble by reporting wrongdoing and corruption.