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    "content": "Therefore, the elite must be told that this country is bigger than themselves. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Ethuro talked of grand coalition that can only deal with grant corruption. I do not share that view. The difference between grand corruption and petty corruption is that grand corruption diverts enormous resources into private hands and pockets of just a few people. People engage in petty corruption sometimes because of the economic hardships. Sometimes, a police officer cannot put bread on the table; he cannot afford to pay school fees for his children and so on, and so forth. So, he abuses his position to enrich himself from the public. But we know that, that kind of corruption must also be dealt with and that is the reason why we have embarked on very fundamental reforms of the police force. We have said that we will deal with the clerks and sweepers the same way that we will deal with their bosses in the country. We are also going to deal with the private sector, because, as somebody has said, it takes two to tango. It is not just the civil servants. Sometimes, we are overly harsh with civil servants. Most of the time, you will find that the civil servants are under a lot of pressure. When, for example, the private sector are competing for contracts; the road contractors, those who are constructing buildings, water projects, supply of medicines and so on, and so forth. When they lose a tender, they come with a briefcase to bribe civil servants to turn things in their favour. So, they are the ones who begin to tempt civil servants. So, as we reign in on the civil servants, we must also point the search light at the private sector because they are equally guilty."
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