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By Men Kimeng, VOA Khmer
WASHINGTON DC - Cambodia must do more to put clear “price tags” on services it intends to charge people for government services and set clear timelines for delivery of those services, if it is to advance its fight against corruption, a leading transparency advocate says.
San Chey, Cambodia representative for the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in East Asia and the Pacific, told “Hello VOA” on Monday that people are tired of paying bribes that are made easy because officials have no set prices for some services and no deadlines.
This allows them to extort more money from people who need something done quickly, or at all. The government has said it plans to make 2013 a year in which it tackles corruption—ahead of a elections to be held in July. San Chey called the campaign “a forward development.” However, he said, “it remains to be seen how effective it is.”
“People are not happy to pay bribes,” San Chey said. “But due to the absence of price tags and clear timelines for the delivery of services, they end up paying officials. If there are those things, officials have no more excuses to extort money.”
Many Cambodians pay bribes for administrative paperwork, such as marriage or birth certificates, as well as other public services. If they fail to pay, the process can be delayed for months or years.
A new anti-corruption law came into effect in 2011, and this has made people “eager to report more on corruption,” San Chey said. However, there are loopholes in the law, and definitions of corruption are unclear, which makes it hard to hold officials accountable, he said. And simply imprisoning them won’t do.
“If the government arrests and put them all in prison, there would have to be three or four additional prisons just to put them all in,” he said.
6 comments:
Hun sen is the mother of all corruptor his Cpp clans are the worse of the worse when come to corruptions! To eliminate corruptions in srok khmer we must eliminate Cpp especially,yuon agent Hun sen's families they were the pigs of the century!
Corrupt's pigs!
Do you imagine Hun Sen building a new prisons to lock himself in?since he is the head of the corruption team (CPP) whom have contributed to the current corruption for 30 years.
Do you beleive that those whom is responsible for rolling out corruption can reserve them? that is the dream year after years let not be a fool by it once more.
Does our country have a really effective anti-corruption system in place that can hold everyone, especially the very top corrupting officials responsible for their corruption to their bones? I hope so in the near future. To be effective, our judicial system should be focused on catching and imprisoning big and biggest fish rather a whole bunch of little one. Currently, I BELIEVE WE HAVE SPACE in prison FOR THEM, top corrupting officials. All the government needs to do is a willingness to just make room for them in prison now, not latter. I just wonder why corruption within our Cambodian government is so well-known around the world?
May all kinds of gods in this universe help Cambodian people fighting corruptions in our motherland
To fight corruption, we need a transparent law and a governing body comprised of at least three different parties. This is a culture change that needs a big crisis and a tremendous willpower in order to be implemented.
Yes, that's right ! for eliminating the corruption in our country it should eliminate the corruption family and party completly first.
After that it should strickly, carefully and particularly select a
unique person who is not greedy and real clean to be a country leader.
To achieve this goal of course we should pray to all kinds of God but we should act by ourselves as well.
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