
US Takes Fight Against Corruption Global, Pledges Efforts
The Government of the United States of America (USA) has described corruption as a cancer that is spreading beyond national and regional borders that would require very deliberate and concerted joint efforts by countries of the world including international agencies to combat.
The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. State Department, James Walsh, pointed this out in a statement.
According to him, corruption wherever it exists is an enabler of all forms of criminality, particularly transnational crime.
Walsh asserted that since corruption impedes investment, stunts economic growth, hampers government
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