We Are Falling Deep Into The Rotten Well Of Corruption :: Mmegi Online

Someone recently asked if we are too deep in to fight corruption. Has this cancer that eats through every fabric of society too entrenched to halt its progress, to end it? Or has eaten through the bones down to the marrow that we are in ICU waiting for the machines to be switched?

I subscribe to the saying travel is the best teacher. We learn more in interaction, especially when we leave our comfort zones to see and experience the world beyond our borders. Travelling teaches one what the books fail to.

The first time I felt the pinch of corruption, was as a young excitable journalist, in Kenya. I had spent hours in transit at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi, waiting to connect from Cairo, Egypt to Johannesburg, South Africa. Ten minutes or so before departure, I heard my name called out on the airport intercom. At the ‘help desk’ I was informed that I had excess luggage and had to pay US$20 to board the plane.

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We Are Falling Deep Into The Rotten Well Of Corruption

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