KUALA LUMPUR: Women have a very important role in leading the community to avoid any forms of corruption and power abuse.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy Chief Commissioner (Prevention) Datuk Shamshun Baharin said women have a very unique strength in fighting corruption as the number of women involved in corruption were very low.
“From the total number of corruption cases from 2012 to 2018, only six per cent involved women.
“Although we cannot deny the fact that there were women involved, but the number is far less compared to the number of men involved in corruption cases.
“This shows that women have a very unique strength not only to bring changes in the family institution and the nation.
“But also to disseminate anti-corruption information and to create a generation that detest corruption completely,” said Shamsun during the launch of the state level Anti-Corruption Women’s Movement (G-War) together with the cooperation of Kuala Lumpur City Hall, here today.
He said the women’s force as a wife or a mother (micro) and as part of a community (macro) can lead the nation in avoiding corruption as a whole.
“I call upon all women to stand together with MACC in fighting misconduct to ensure no women are ever involved in this scourge,” he said.
National Association of Wives of Civil Servants and Women Civil Servants (Puspanita) chairman, Rohmah Latiff said the efforts to combat corruption was not an exclusive role of MACC alone but an effort which needs to be taken by all.
“Women who play the role of decision makers in the corporate sector must be firm and play their role in avoiding corruption completely.
“There are no shortcuts in achieving success other than to work hard and through prayers. True success is only by our own efforts and not by receiving any form of corruption or through misconduct,” she said in her opening speech.
The national level G-War was launched on March 1, in line with the government’s call to announce 2018 as Women Empowerment Year.
The inaugural event was aimed at getting women to be involved in combating corruption and this was the first time such an event was held since MACC was established 50 years ago.