Corruption has become an issue of major concern in public institutions leading to the failure of the government to serve the citizens well and widen the gap between the poor and the rich. The government has failed to win the war against corruption mainly because the authorities responsible are part of the corrupt officers.
Performing structured critical analysis
Conclusion: evaluating the level of corruption in the public institutions with the aim of establishing the possible problem.
Evidence: testing the practices that make people think that people holding the public offices in the public institutions are engaged in misuse of powers and public funds.
Assumptions: corruption leads to misuse of public funds and affects the performance of the economy through increasing poverty.
Strengths: testing the level of corruption helps in understanding the problem and developing measures that can help in addressing the issue.
Weakness: the officers holding the public offices might not be willing to share the information about corruption.
Fallacies: the authorities that are responsible for fighting corruption can be part of the corrupt cartels where they enrich themselves. This can make it hard to get the corrupt officers due to the lack of commitment of the responsible authorities hence the need for independent bodies for addressing the issue.
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