Roadblock Politics — Peer Schouten
In Pursuit of Development
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The Problem of Road Blocks in Malavi
Road blocks are mainly something that one associates with poorly paid police officers who use this opportunity to somehow supplement their meagre salaries. In some cases, you know, you could have a situation where no crime or offence has actually been committed, but people simply pay a small amount of phantom money to avoid further harassment by the police. So we actually turn a blind eye to this type of petty corruption because we believe the control element, the security aspect is more important and cannot be sacrificed in terms of fighting petty corruption. A lot of tetter also holds sense in other countries in a way rote locks allow s which do not er dispose of robust budgets to finance nominal presenc around the country on
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