Corruption and Fraudulent Culture: The Case of Tanzania.

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2014-12
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Globethics.net.
Abstract
Today’s Tanzania is not and cannot be immune not only to petty corruption but also to grand and looting forms of corruption. It is under intensive corruption! Corruption is being institutionalised and it has been accepted as a vice that one can benefit from and it has become “as the cancer in the society”. Corruption as a phenomenon has eaten deep into almost if not all strata of African society and it has been and is accepted as part of our culture and “the moral principle in operation here is one of utilitarianism: as long as my choice of action brings some good to me, it is okay.”If not stopped, corruption is always the main cause of the moral and social break-down of our society. It is even internationally acknowledged that, systematic corruption is prevalent and entrenched in most of sub-Saharan countries of which Tanzania is one of them.
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Corruption, Prevention, Fraudulent Culture, Prevention Ethics
Citation
6. Masabo, C. J., 2014. Corruption and Fraudulent Culture: The Case of Tanzania. In E. Nduku and J. Tenamwenye eds. Corruption in Africa: A Threat to Justice and Sustainable Peace (145-167). Geneva: Globethics.net. Also available at http://www.globethics.net/documents/4289936/13403252/GE_Focus_14_web.pdf/049fa307-e369-4264-927d-4d9453d31871