He who does not grease the palm suffers - Lesetedi

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Lobatse High Court Judge, Isaac Lesetedi, has warned that corruption can stall service delivery to ordinary members of society as it breeds abuse of public resources by civil servants for selfish gain through illegal and underhand means.

"It negatively impacts on service delivery, for instance in awards of contracts because service delivery quality and competitiveness may be compromised through deliberate disregard of such values for the sake of underhand considerations of which the receiver of the award is beholden to the benefactor. The result is often shoddy delivery of services at times at exorbitant cost to the economy of the country," he warned

Lesetedi was speaking at the beginning of a two-day conference organised by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crimes (DCEC) on Thursday.

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