WHAT would you do if you saw corruption happening before your eyes? Would you say something, or walk away repeating in your head “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”? Perhaps corruption became such a common scene in our lives, we are now numb to it. Perhaps, we are too afraid of losing whatever we have for the sake of preventing vice. How easy is it for us to say that as long as there is an official authority standing against corruption, it is their responsibility and I have nothing to do with it? But we forget that it is not about holding the Anti-Corruption Committee (Nazaha) accountable for its duty. It is about protecting ourselves. We have to understand that the society we are in shapes us and affects us all. For example, whenever exploitation of money happens, it is each and every individual's responsibility to prevent it at least verbally. If you aren't the victim of the exploitation, then it is your son, brother, father, cousin, relative, or friend. Nazaha has its role, for sure. But combating corruption will not effectively happen unless Nazaha works together with the citizens. Nazaha only came about as an organizational authority in 2011. Combating corruption is a human responsibility whether there is an official authority responsible for this or not. If Nazaha really wants to achieve effective results, it needs citizens' support. Nazaha needs to raise awareness in society of the importance of their involvement in fighting corruption. They need to be active on social media, have clear steps on how to report an incident of corruption and leave its doors open through offering workshops and lectures on the committee and societal balance. The committee is of and from society. If one Saudi father goes about his life seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil, we will have an entire society including its anti-corruption authorities walking around seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil.
