Any revolutionary solution seldom avoids appearing like a Utopias trade with a population for a long time maintained into a dead end. However, the dead end settled in, not because solutions are missing, but rather because all solutions are fought, persecuted.
Our African countries, known by the world only for their crises and disasters - even as they are disproportionately amplified by Western media - are more victims of lack of organization than of an alleged curse. Yet Africans, the very people who suffer from the mess imposed them by those who benefit from it and who find it beneficial to maintain them under a condition of the voiceless, burst with solutions able to change their fate.
These Africans would not find a solution of getting rid of corruption in a six-month period as a Utopia.
The State is a non-profit organization, that a People freely gets equipped with in order to solve major problems that isolated individuals could not solve themselves. The State originated from Africa. Africa missed its start because its current State, far from being a construction by the People to solve the People’s problems, is instead an organization for the control and exploitation of indigenous populations, bequeathed by the leaving colonial occupant to his local henchmen.
Because former colonial occupant’s henchmen, placed to lead what we wrongly keep calling State, fill their role of maintaining the governed populations in a condition of absence of solutions, in order to better dominate and exploit them, the advent of the People’s State is possible only once our countries are liberated from the claws of occupation interests’ servants - generally Western interests’ servants.
But Liberation in itself would be only the beginning, all the more exposed to the emergence of other problems that the former order would create by way of counter-attacks.
Consequently, inter alia, the success of Liberation will pass through the end of corruption, a social vermin which denies the human rights that are the basis of an environment of justice and progress, establishes the domination of strongest over the weakest, discourages the taste of production effort, saps the honor and patriotism that found the success of great nations.
Fight against corruption should start with campaigns of population education about the knowledge of their rights to have access to the benefit of public goods and services that the State produces. The promotion of rights is not solely more effective through media and publicity panels, it is still more effective on the spot where the public services and goods that citizens have right of access to are delivered.
A good example is that, in an office for public assistance to victims, the office personnel should have the obligation to explain and give to the service applicant the law that gives her/him right to the service, as well as all the procedures of free appeals s/he can have recourse to in the event the service was refused her/him. The service applicant should recognize, by signing, that s/he well understood the law as well as her/his his rights.
The explanation of the laws and of applicants’ rights to services must be systematic everywhere a public service or good is delivered, be it by a public entity or by a private entity. Because the right is a fundamental condition to fighting domination and corruption.
A two-month long, intensive campaign of laws and rights explanation seems to be sufficient for the populations to understand that their access to the benefit of public services and goods depends, not on the goodwill of the official or civil servant charged to treat their request, but rather on the laws, situations and conditions that grant them the right to that benefit.
The two-month long rights campaign should be used to carry out tests and surveys, in order to take the temperature of the reception people made to the new measures.
These two months would be especially used to set up and train thousands of undercover agents who would cover the entire territory and all public services. These undercover agents would play the character of the corrupter or of the corrupted, in order to gather the legal evidences necessary to prosecute suspected corrupted and corrupter individuals before courts.
It is expected that, during the third and fourth month of anti-corruption operation, thousands of individuals would be prosecuted for corruption crimes.
It is especially essential that court hearings dealing with corruption matters be public, with free access granted the media, so that they can create appropriate popular - State-funded if necessary - programs.
All means of positive terror over the populations should be used to discourage anyone from having recourse to corruption in order to obtain any advantage in a public or private organization.
The fifth and sixth month of the operation would in theory record much less corruption crime cases. During this period, an evaluation of the results reached should be carried out, as well as the various impacts on the economy, tax revenues, rate of satisfaction of the public, as well as the new strategies and tactics necessary to definitively get rid of the plague, by thus spreading an anti-corruption culture in all sectors and domains of life.
The success of an anti-corruption operation passes especially by full powers granted the magistrates in charge of fighting the vermin. These magistrates would have special police force units under their orders, with the capacity to order the arrest of anyone, without consideration of "do you know whom you deal with?"
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