DR CHRISTOPHER B YENKEY
Dr. Christopher B Yenkey from University of South Carolina, has stated that, people tend to lose the incentive to be objective whenfighting corruption involving close-knit groups.
“In these close-knit group, what we tend to lose is the incentive to be objective, to hold others accountable, to do DUE DELLIGENCE. Everyone is familiar with this term? This is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak”.
This was disclosed at a public lecture organized by the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition in collaboration with Youth Bridge Foundation on the theme, “Youth and Corruption: Demystifying Corruption”.
The goal is to establish a stronger understanding among Ghanaian youth, Anti-Corruption Campaigners and Government that, corruption is facilitated by a system of buyers and sellers rather than simply by deviant officials.
This creates an opportunity for youth and society at large to play a more active role in its elimination.
Dr. Yen key noted that corruption is not a simple, one sided activity because, victims can inadvertently become collaborators in normalizing corruption.
He says, it is well established principal that close social groups police their own. “that is, cohesive social groups think of a family or an ethnic group-have informal but clear-cut norms of acceptable behavior”.
According to Dr. Christopher B Yenkey, people don’t want to call attention to problems that are too close to home, saying, because they have so much at stake with them group or community’s reputation or identity, they hurt themelves when they make it publicly known that a member of the community is deviant.
Dr. Yenkey disclosed further that, people who are too different from each other tend to not trusting each other and struggle to work together and get things done.
He again said, people who are too similar to each other trust each other too much that, they assume the other person must be doing things correctly.
Dr. Christopher stressed that when people see someone trip on the sidewalk, they tend to think they are clumsy’ but they trip on the sidewalk, they tend to blame the cracks in the pavement.
“This tendency to explain others behavior as immoral but our own behavior as strategic creates a situation where corruption will ALWAYS persist, because of the higher probability that the people involved in the transaction will see it as strategic and most of the time it’s in our strategic interest to engage in the corrupt transaction”.
He averred that people tend to hold others to a different standard than they hold themselves, sayng, closely related to that is a reasonable concern that when there is a welling buyer or payer of a bribe, the incentive for a welling individual seller to arise is as understandable as it is collectively damaging.
Corruption Dr. Christopher B Yenkey indicated is a social disease and that, what we need to be working towards has to do with a vaccine, adding that corruption is a social problem, and we need systematic social research to help develop a social vaccine.”This social vaccine will come from the bottom up. Ghana can be a leader in finding the cure”.
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