Behind every graft, there is a woman adding fuel to fire

I did studies to find reactions of women in situations where corruption is expected to rear its head. I found that women were more willing to pay to have their children, relatives or friends employed.

WHEN IT COMES TO THE BIGGEST driver of corruption in business, the shocker is that businesswomen are more than willing to bribe to get business.

The meteoric rise of some businesswomen can be traced to this. Nothing will stop them from getting the contract. “Ten per cent” is the order of the day.

Roles have reversed, and the saying that “behind every successful man there is a woman” has acquired a totally grave meaning. It is now common knowledge that some of the mega corruptions were prompted by wives who admonish their husbands to be “clever like other men”.

Indeed, if KACC was really working, many men would become both mother and father in some families, as their wives would be in jail.

Women’s role as the “voice of reason” needs to be restored in the war against corruption.

The writer, a social scientist, is a university lecturer in management.