Corrupt heads make countries go bankrupt, not low level officials: PM Imran Khan

PM Imran Khan stated that countries experience bankrupty and debt when the leaders or heads of states are corrupt, not because of the low level officials. 

“When low level officials take bribes it creates problems for the citizens as speed money is like a tax on them but countries get bankrupted and indebted when the head of state/govt and his ministers are corrupt,” the PM stated on Twitter. 

The PM also shared a snippet from “Memorandum on Establishing the Fight Against Corruption as a Core United States National Security Interest” which is issued by the US President Joe Biden which gives directives to his senior officials to do an interagency review and come up with the development of a Presidential strategy for the improvement of the ability of the executive departments for the promotion of good governance, make an account of all sorts of illegal finance , holding all kinds of corruption accountable, and enhance the capacity of domestic and international institutes for the preventation of corruption. 

The Memorandum’s prefatory paragraph states that “Corruption corrodes public trust; hobbles effective governance; distorts markets and equitable access to services; undercuts development efforts; contributes to national fragility, extremism, and migration; and provides authoritarian leaders a means to undermine democracies worldwide. When leaders steal from their nations’ citizens or oligarchs flout the rule of law, economic growth slows, inequality widens, and trust in government plummets.”