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Getting to the roots of corruption (21/04)

06/08/2010 - 99 Lượt xem

Making greater efforts to crack down on corruption and waste is among the major tasks mentioned in the Political Report at the ongoing tenth National Party Congress.

The Communist Party of Vietnam, the political system, and society will exert themselves to the utmost to root out corruption and wastefulness in the next five years.

The report said the country had seen a regression in terms of political thought, morality, and lifestyle among several officials and civil servants which has become a matter of deep concern.

In his speech delivered at the Congress Wednesday afternoon, Minister of Internal Affairs Do Quang Trung stressed corruption and bureaucracy had spoiled the beliefs of Vietnamese people in the State administration and dragged the country behind many other countries in the world.

Trung said the serious corruption cases recently disclosed at the ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Transport showed the shortage of regulations on economic-financial and public assets management as well as an effective mechanism of inspection, control and inventory.

He proposed solutions to promote administrative reform, which include offering satisfactory salaries for cadres and civil servants, but added that only people with good morality and competence should benefit.

In his opinion, it should have mechanisms not only for unions and media agencies to strengthen discovery of corruption but also for inspectorates and State agencies to prevent corruption.

A delegate at the Congress, Vu Thi Bich Viet from northern Tuyen Quang province, suggested two solutions to prevent negative phenomena.

She said the country should seek to overcome the phenomenon of completing assigned tasks on the basis of emulation only, popular among the State management apparatus.

In her opinion, the right accession of achievements and shortcomings in activities of Party units and government authorities will help unveil negative phenomena hiding behind the “virtual” achievements.

The second solution, according to Phuong, is to strengthen, consolidate and promote democracy in party cells.

Nguyen Viet Nu from the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang expressed concern over corrupt officials and party members in the province.

She said many officials made corrupt use of their positions to appropriate land on Phu Quoc Island and the provincial authorities sought to solve the problem.

Nu said many serious corruption cases also occurred in many other localities and sectors but the party cells and party members there did not know or intentionally neglected.

She stressed building the Party is essential and must be carried out effectively.

In her opinion, it is rational to delegate the supervision rights to Party committees and inspectorates of all levels as mentioned in the draft Party Regulations as it will help strengthen the inspection and supervision to discover even embryonic signs of corruption.

Through such opinions, the battle against corruption in the near future will require many factors.

Requirements include guidance of the Party Central Committee to Party cell activities; from the reforms of mechanism and State management policies to regular and effective inspections and supervisions of all State agencies; and from the public opinions to internal strength.

With a good grasp of the system at its people in this manner, it would be impossible for ‘maladies’ to exist within the Party.

Source: Thanhnien