Graft and Corruption Practices Among Selected Public Officials in Mindanao, Southern Philippines
<p>This study aims to examine the graft and corruption practices among selected public officials in southern Philippines. The<br />study is qualitative in nature making use of case study method in which an in-depth analysis of primary data obtained from<br />eight informants, four...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan |
| Online Access: | https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jsp/article/view/65 |
| Summary: | <p>This study aims to examine the graft and corruption practices among selected public officials in southern Philippines. The<br />study is qualitative in nature making use of case study method in which an in-depth analysis of primary data obtained from<br />eight informants, four of whom are town mayors and their four incumbent municipal treasurers, is employed. The findings<br />revealed that the mayor informants got elected through vote buying and bribery. Politics and family matters intersect as<br />informants are supported by their families during election who used guns, gold and goons to ensure election victory. The<br />clannish nature of the community finds expression also in the selection of relatives in municipal employment and in accessing<br />municipal resources. The most prevalent corruption practice disclosed by the informants is amassing the internal revenue<br />allotment (IRA) for personal purposes in order to recover the huge amount of money spent during election. Other types of<br />corruption practices also include falsification of documents, nepotism, bribery, kickbacks, and evasion of public bidding.<br />These public officials also do not seem to perform official duties in their towns as they live outside of their municipalities.<br />Inter-agency involvement of corruption among different government agencies in the areas studied are also uncovered.<br />Moreover, the perceived negative effects of corruption are manifested in the poor delivery of the community’s basic social<br />services in health, water supply, education, and security protection. Corruption also adversely affects the construction of<br />community infrastructure facilities and the establishment of an equitable and solid economic base. The study has implications<br />to the strict policy implementation of the provisions of the 1991 Local Government Code of the Philippines, The Anti-Graft<br />and Corrupt Practices Act, and other pertinent laws in order to improve the transparency, integrity and accountability of public<br />officials not only in southern Philippines but also in the entire country<br />KEYWORDS: governance, inter-agency corruption involvement, Internal Review Allotment, maratabat, nepotism</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1907-8374 2337-8220 |