Breaking shameful cycle

EACH TIME THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE releases its annual auditing report on major central and local government institutions, we see similar patterns of abuses, as well as similar, if not the same, rule-violating agencies and persons.

This time, again, we are presented with the same plentitude of the obvious.

Some central government departments and their non-administrative affiliates were found abusing the administrative resources at their disposal and making illicit profits. And collective corruption was "serious".