Perpetual Corruption

It's well known that politicians in our country bribe their way to win elections. Once they are in office they will secure jobs and lucrative government tenders for their relatives, friends and cronies. In order to recoup money spent during campaigns they will ensure that government oversight roles in public spending are disregarded so as to earn fat kickbacks. The devolved government funds such as CDF and LATF can't be effective at the grass roots because of misuse by cartels of politicians. Thus, a new political campaign is followed by a new regime that spawns a new breed of corrupt officials and the cycle continues unbroken. I guess, this could be addressed by well informed citizens who have to demand that government systems that guarantee accountability, transparency, checks and balances are put in place. It's envisaged that the New Constitution will give an impetus to the growth of these much awaited structures, otherwise, taxpayers funds will continue to be misused and service delivery will remain a pipe dream due to unabated corruption. We need, as a country, to break this cycle of corruption in order to lay the basis for development to improve our status from the current sorry third world state. The leaders and citizens have somehow to work in tandem for this to happen.