WE must appreciate the efforts of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) to put its foot on the correct road that will enable it to perform its duties properly. Nazaha has not lost hope yet. It is still trying to find the correct path in the dense forest of corruption, which is replete with wild and venomous animals. It is doing this through ideas and other mechanisms including the spreading of awareness, call and guidance. Among other modalities being used by the commission to fight corruption is its passionate pleading with the corrupt to stop their corruption. This strategy is, of course, doomed to fail because pleading will never work with the corrupt or make them stop what they are doing. Nazaha should realize that a corrupt person is someone who has lost his conscience, humanity and patriotism. When the corrupt hears Nazaha imploring him to stop his corruption, he will laugh at the commission for its useless ethical calls and will get up to complete his path on the road of corruption. The latest initiative of Nazaha as part of its drive to fight corruption is the creation of the new job title of “corruption specialist”. This was revealed by the deputy chairman of the commission Abdullah Al-Abdul Qadir in a recent interview with a local newspaper. He said the specialist would be working inside ministries and government departments to undertake a number of tasks, including a close monitoring of the application of the rules and regulations. He said the corruption specialist will be following up the facility's faltering projects and continuously check its internal auditing. The deputy chairman said the presence of a corruption specialist in every ministry or government department is not only a necessity but a top priority. “The Public Administration Institute, which is chaired by the minister of civil service, has added the job of ‘corruption specialist' to the government's jobs,” he said. We are, therefore, entering into the history of administration with this unprecedented specialization and we will be recognized as being the first country in the world to have this job title. We can later export this new invention to the world. This invention, however, opens wide doors for imagination regarding the futility of placing “corruption specialists” in ministries and government departments. Can the so-called corruption specialist make any achievements or correct any corrupt situation? Imagine the specialist entering the ministry with his letter of appointment in this new job. How will the other employees receive this “corruption specialist”? How will they look at him? No doubt the specialist will be under constant supervision and close watch to obstruct him from doing his job properly. All the experienced corrupt employees in the ministry or the government department will join hands to impede him from doing the tasks for which he has been appointed to do. Ultimately the specialist will find that he has two options: either to join the corrupt or leave. We will not make any gains from this new job. It will only be an extra burden on the shoulders of the government budget. I beg Nazaha to give up this idea and pray to Almighty Allah to bestow upon it other good ideas to fight corruption.
