COMMENT | Six quick steps to beat corruption

COMMENT | At his own admission, at the top of the list of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s priorities is fighting the Third World scourge called corruption.

This has been, more than anything else, responsible for miring many countries in mud and slime from which they are unable to extricate themselves.

It is a matter of great folly and regret that since the 1980s, we have allowed ourselves to descend deeper into this morass of filth and dirt into that curse of all developing countries which prevents us from fulfilling our deepest and noblest aspirations.

We have also seen how the more corrupt our leaders are, the more they rely on the time-tested weapons of insidiously using religion, race, and language to whip up support for their evil scheme of getting into power by promoting division among the rakyat. The pity is many are taken in.

Anwar has a golden opportunity which he must take now to put the country back on the road towards doing good for all by first crushing corruption, something which is far more easily spoken about than done...