Sexually Based Corruption goes higher and higher

After a scientific research throughout the country,the Transparency Rwanda publishes the results according which 90 % of respondents agreed that Sex is part and parcel of modern corruption in Rwanda.

These statistics are based on different talks held with civil society representatives, grassroots populations and public servants from different institutions nationwide.

The research sampled two districts in each province of Rwanda. Among factors for the sex corruption to spread include the culture of silence whereby victims choose to remain silent due to either shame or lack of legal framework to help them talk.

Ingabire Immaculee, the Executive Officer of Transparency Rwanda highlighted different mechanisms used by sex corrupted people, difficult mechanisms to present to the court as a proof into justice.

Transparency has found that the problem also involve education sector where schools, from University to primary education levels, teachers sexually corrupt their students.

In public institutions, sex corruption happens when employers want to promote their workers, wants to send them in special trainings and when reports are to be made.

In Huye District the problem is highly remarkable as Executive Secretaries hire different young girls after they fornicate with them and change them as frequently as possible.

The housemaids are the most endangered. For them to be promoted with a relatively higher salary, they are forced to fornicate with their masters.

Ti the other hand, Male drivers are tempted to fornicate with their mistresses .These women urged them to do so in order to remain at work. If they refuse they lose the job.

According to the research, among the solutions, include a parental involvement of their children at schools and a legal framework that increases chances to chase, track and punish the sexually corrupted persons.

For Ingabire, the fight against this crime remains very difficult to eradicate as in Rwandan Culture, explicit debate on sex related issues is still a taboo.

Venuste KAMANZI

UM– USEKE.RW