{"id":29203,"date":"2024-06-18T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T03:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=29203"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T03:54:29","slug":"prime-minister-and-macc-on-the-right-track-fighting-corruption-salleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/06\/18\/prime-minister-and-macc-on-the-right-track-fighting-corruption-salleh\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister and MACC on the right track fighting corruption &#8211; Salleh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak fully supports Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Azam Baki&#8217;s statement that increasing civil servant salaries will not effectively combat corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salleh emphasised that corruption is driven by individuals lacking integrity and moral values, constituting only a small fraction of civil servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The majority of them are honest as well as god-fearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But if we do not remove the corrupted ones, then it might spread like cancer, he said in his latest Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salleh commended the efforts of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Azam Baki in addressing corruption as a crucial national issue that must not be overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Azam Baki cautioned against simply raising the wages of civil servants without addressing deeper issues that create opportunities for corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azam said increasing civil servant salaries alone will not curb corruption, as low wages and poverty are not the main factors behind corruption in the civil service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak fully supports Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Azam Baki&#8217;s statement that increasing civil servant salaries will not effectively combat corruption. Salleh emphasised that corruption is driven by individuals lacking integrity and moral values, constituting only a small fraction of civil servants. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29205,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29203\/revisions\/29205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}