CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE
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Adopt the anti-corruption law as soon as possible.
Perform its function, of effective and regular control of public resources,
fully to ensure that public expenditure is effectively controlled.
The panel recommends that the government and the institutions tasked with
fighting corruption should:
Implement the nine-point national anti-corruption strategy effectively by:
(i) demonstrating the political will and determination of the government to
give hope and encouragement to the people in the fight against corruption;
(ii) implementing the required administrative and institutional reforms;
(iii) establishing a legal and effective anti-corruption framework; (iv)
stabilising public finances and increasing the return on public funds; (v)
consolidating and strengthening the rule of law; (vi) improving the
transport sector; (vii) supporting the activities of civil society; (viii)
improving the attitudes and work ethics of public servants and improving
their salaries; and (ix) adopting a pragmatic approach to the
implementation of anti-corruption policies.
In addition to the strategic plan: (i) make the anti-corruption control
system, and control in general, more dynamic; (ii) create a corruptionintolerant environment; and (iii) emphasise that corruption will certainly
be detected and not sanctioned.
Draw up, as soon as possible, a civic and moral education programme for
implementation in primary and secondary schools.
Strengthen and make effective the administrative and financial controls in
all state institutions and their branches beginning with the National
Assembly and the Chamber of Accounts, and make accountability a
culture and a natural reflex in the administration and management of
public assets.
Build the material and human capacities of the various control bodies and
increase their roles in this difficult but salutary task.
Build human and material capacities for the judicial system and review the
status of judges.
Amend the constitution by creating an audit bench, and build its capacity
to execute its function of exercising judicial control over the use of public
resources.
Implement a policy of zero tolerance for the corrupters and the corrupted
alike so as to eradicate the culture of connivance and impunity that breeds
corruption.
To the Audit Bench of the Supreme Court, the panel recommends that it
should:
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