03.06.05 The 3rd Organisational Consequence of Corruption

3. Institutional or National Blindness 

Deuteronomy 16:19 says that (CEV): Bribeskeep people who are wise from seeing the truth…  When a leader who has a proven-track record for making wise decisions succumbs to a bribe, he or she can easily convince an entity to go down a wrong path since people will trustingly follow. As already elaborated earlier, this was what transpired when Ntariza, the Director of Operations dropped a capable vendor, Jenga Construction, in favor of an inexperienced one, Delph Contractors.  As you may remember, Daudi had ferried a bribe from Delph to Ntariza, which he (Ntariza) deposited on a personal house.  However, down the track, the inexperienced Delph messed up BORA’s assignment, which resulted in the delay and eventual cancellation of the government’s road building contract.  Have you ever heard of employees who sanction corruptive activities on the excuse that a top official forced them to?  Deuteronomy 16:18-19 forbids us to either condone or engage in such activities even if some important person is involved, since that can hurl an organisation into making unfair and unproductive decisions.  This is what it says (CEV): ..Those of you that become judges must be completely fair when you make legal decisions, even if someone important is involved.  Don't take bribes to give unfair decisions.