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What Corruption ? Whose Corruption ?

Managing change

The logic for this is actually quite understandable. Their own country is underdeveloped and thus
poor. The embassy issuing my visa is located in a richer, more expensive country. The poor country
gives no extra money to their foreign-based embassy workers to help compensate for the higher
local cost of living in.
Somewhere along the line, one or more of the 'higher ups' has understood that to keep a happy
workforce it will be 'OK' if the foreign-based staff make an extra charge.

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I as a m'zuŋ u find it difficult to argue with their logic. Why should the people in an
underdeveloped and therefore poor country be expected to pay their foreign-based embassy
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officials some of the little money the country has, simply so that a much richer m'zuŋ u can be
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issued a visa. Of course, almost all m'zuŋ u who encounter this sort of embassy related
'surcharge' see it differently and go on to slander that embassy and that country with outrage and
descriptions of corruption. But is it really corruption!.)
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Once the logic for some sort of 'informal payments' becomes an accepted policy, then of
course there's a predictability to what follows. It can take just one corrupt high-ranking

government official to set in motion the mafia like border post corruption detailed earlier.

Aware of the overall size of the revenue potential, that high-ranking official 'sells' the
position of commander at the border post to a willing person. No money changes hand.

Instead, the new commander undertakes to make regular payments. But these payments
will, over time, amount to vast sums and which will be secured by an ever present sense of

retribution for any failure to meet the expected 'rake off''.

To make the expected payments, the new border post commander then has to make
every single person on the border post do their bit.. And the '5 bar gate' method referred to

earlier is the most basic way of ensuring this. No matter what your job is at the border

post, there will be a way to identify any failure on your part to collect - and pass on to the
'big boss' - any one payment.

And any such failure will face an unlimited retribution. Unlimited because in an

underdeveloped country, someone like the border post commander will have an unchecked
level of power over you.

And so from the beginning, even the unwilling are dragged into the system. As time
goes by, these are replaced by others who can be relied upon to be much more

enthusiastic about collecting the extra charges.
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(It's just the same as happens with any m'zuŋ u corporation. When m'zuŋ u organisations recruit
new personnel, they can be expected to give preference to the individuals who 'share' that
organisation's 'philosophy'. And so it is with the border past mafia - and other such)