Adopting a Bottom-up Anti-Corruption Strategy

Wafula Okumu writes that any anti-corruption strategy must be bottom-up for it to have a chance of success "...Such a strategy would entail strengthening national legislation, tightening procedures and audit systems, improving public service performance, developing a culture of outrage, positively encouraging public service integrity, and strengthening institutions of governance.13 Good governance, based on effective mechanisms of public financial management and institutions of political accountability, would exterminate corruption by dismantling patron-client institutions in African political systems..."