The consequence of Bribery

Bribery is well known for a long time and anyone can participate in it. Don't get it wrong, any one can participate doesn't mean it is something one would have to participate. Bribery is just wrong in all ramifications.

There are no places where bribery exists that function well. Administratively, such places have unnecessary bottle necks that causes losses and waste of time and resources. Productivity in such places are poor and innovation is usually stagnated.

It always starts when individuals rather than been led by value and service, pursue their own personal interest against the interest and goal of the organization or establishment.

It is even worse when this attitude creeps into government establishments and institutions. The aim of government institutions are to deliver services to the people to make their lives easy going. But those institutions have constantly become places of frustration each time citizens visit to get one or two things done. As there are often limited posts to get such documents done, multitudes que up to get get done what they are there to do. However, some people seem more special than others because they have paid to jump the que. It doesn't matter if you stood in the que for hours or under the sun. Once you have no money to bribe your way through, you just remain where you are, until when those who paid are done.

Also, the police have made it as a duty to collect bribe on the road. They stop every vehicle passing by first, by setting up check points and slowing the traffic. Sometimes you may wonder if there is an accident that have happened ahead that caused such huge traffic. But on reaching the bribery collection points you would realize the roads are so free ahead.

When it come to seeking job too, you have to pay a bribe to gain employment. And out of desperation to gain employment in lucrative government offices, people enter a deal with their employer or one who help them facilitate their employment to give certain percentage to them each time they collect their salaries. And that percent can be as high as 40-50%. Leaving the employed with a half pay to take home.

In government education institutions too, bribery still find its way in it. Education institutions that should be beacon of hope are not spared. Each year during admission periods, those who score on merits are not given a chance. But those who failed, and their parents are well to do gain the admission due to limited spaces.

The consequences

Due to the continuous bribes, it has lead to the following consequences;

• time wastage; due to the unnecessary cutting corners by those who have the monies to pay for bribes, those are are supposed to be attended to are delayed. And those delayed waste so much hours that should be put into other productive things.

• Loss of productivity; because so much time is wasted on getting simple things done due to bottle necks caused by bribery, production would have to wait especially if the most important person that leads production burn time away there.

• Encourages laziness; such a system cause people to be lazy especially those who feels by paying some money they can always get their way through.

• Brain drain; this especially happens in the education institutions. When those who are so passionate about what they want to study are denied admission in to the proper Field. And those field of study are fill with the children of those who pay bribes, they can only give as best as they have and not beyond. And when their is no Passion for a thing motivation slowly dies and no innovation comes. An institution without reaserch and innovation for solution is as good as a play ground.

• Economic loss; with all the time wastage, loss of productivity and Brain drain it all points to one direction with other multiple consequence which is economic loss.