Press Release: Corruption: Another Cancer within Capitalist Society that cannot be treated by Eliminating its Symptoms!
Corruption: Another Cancer within Capitalist Society that cannot be treated by Eliminating its Symptoms!
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Ababu Namwamba is accused along with some of his members of a corruption scandal. He is accused over allegations of being bribed by Defense Principal Secretary to alter a report following investigations into Sh 2.9 billion funneled from secret accounts. The PAC’s scam has caused uproar among the parliamentarians especially after Namwamba admitted that graft is the Kenyan leader’s uniform. And the American, British and Swiss ambassadors have urged the Kenyan Government to pursue and slay graft dragons. With this regard, Hizb ut Tahrir East Africa wishes to mention the following:
Firstly: Graft is widely spread in the country and has not only hit the public institutions but also the private ones. Through mega corruption scams such as the famous IIEBC’s ‘Chicken Scandal’ Anglo Leasing and the Goldenberg and many others, Billions of public funds have ended into bellies of the politicians. Truly this is a bold betrayal and injustice of the so called authorities holding public posts claiming to represent the public interests, instead of working to improve the life standard of the citizens; they are strongly competing over embezzlement of the public cash. Sadly neither is that no any step has been taken against any one of them nor brought to the book and more worse the scandals finally are turned into a mere political circus. This is one of the ignominies and lies of the western political system of Democracy which avows that parliament represents and protects the will of the Nation while the reality is a platform of the ‘VIPs’ to reach their theft of the public properties.
Secondly: with regard to noise being made by the Western diplomats urging Kenya to track all top corruption suspects, that is just mocking at naïve Kenyans. Western Countries have been overwhelmingly hit by fraud and use their political imperialism and threats against the so called third world countries compelling them to sign long year’s contracts with their companies to continue plundering our resources. This situation has caused a widespread dire of poverty in the world and particularly in Africa. And indeed this is a grand corruption of which if they are clean they would have uprooted it!
Thirdly: Various commissions and institutions formed to fight graft have miserably failed to tackle the menace, instead of combating the problem of graft; they end up being meddled in corruption. This is crystal clear. For since the formation and changing names of these commissions and institutions, still the issue of graft still persists and is spreading at an appalling pace. The only reason of their failure being, instead of delving in tackling the core of the problem, rather they are turning around the outcomes. The essence of corruption in Kenya and, the world at large, emanate from the fallacy of embracing the erroneous colonial ideology: capitalism democracy which is inundated with materialistic gratification as the sole criteria in life. This criteria, triggers people including the leaders to be infested with avidity to amass wealth through any root regardless of whether is right or wrong. Thus, it’s no strange to find the capitalist leaders meddle in theft, bribe, corruption and embezzlement. This show leadership in capitalism is just a means of amassing wealth not serving the people.
Fourthly: Since the root cause of this problem is capitalism democracy, the real and tangible solution lies only on getting rid of the heinous ideology. Replacing it with a just ideology which is no other than Islam. Below is just a summary of how Islamic ideology ruthlessly combats the menace of corruption .Islam curses all those who involve themselves in bribe and corruption.
• The responsibility and duty of fighting corruption is devolved on all not certain individuals or commission.
• In Islam, leadership is a trust upon which those entrusted shall be held accountable in the Last Day.
• Islam demands the leader to take any serious action against anyone who involves in the graft regardless of their status in society.
Through these measures, Islam for thirteen centuries when Islam ruled half of the world, corruption cases were rare if any. Likewise, if the Khilafah is reestablished, the menace of corruption and other vices will be obliterated.
Shabani Mwalimu
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in East Africa