Professor St Augustin Wandambali, Director General (DG) of the Observatory for the Monitoring of Corruption and Professional Ethics (OSCEP) in the DRC, proposes the culture of accountability ethics among public officials and managers as a new approach to the fight against endemic corruption in the country.
Fight against corruption: OSCEP DG advocates an "ethics of responsibility" to eradicate the scourge in the DRC
Total Views :
250
He said this during the development of his module on Monday, as part of the capacity building of public executives and officials, on the occasion of the 2024 edition of the anti-corruption week. Through this module entitled "Role and place of ethics in the fight against corruption: towards a socio-anthropological approach integrated into the law", the DG of the OSCEP demonstrated the need to associate with the law the approaches related to the ethics of responsibility to fight corruption.
"Ethics is the set of values, principles and rules that guide the attitude, behaviour and actions of an officer in the performance of his or her duties. There are two types of ethics: an ethics of conviction and the other of responsibility. The first is centered on the law, on taxation and reason. The second is the ethics of responsibility. It works from consciousness," he explained.
In addition, the DG of the OSCEP proposes to President Felix Tshisekedi the creation of an academy of integrity and governance. The mission of this academy will be to train future leaders in an ethic of responsibility and to raise their awareness of the challenges of corruption.
"No representative will be able to access his functions without having followed training in this academy for at least 3 months," announced Professor Wandambali.
For him, the ethics of responsibility alone is not enough. It also emphasizes the essential role of political will. "Of course we need the political will of the head of state. It is already here. But it suffers from a crying deficit of being taken care of by the entire ruling political class," he lamented.
At the end of July, the Centre for Research in Public Finance and Local Development (Crefdl) called on Prime Minister Judith Suminwa, who had just been installed, to pass an anti-corruption law. The structure also called for the creation of specialized courts supported by a financial prosecutor's office, to solve the problems of corruption that plague all sectors of public life, including that of justice in the DRC.
