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The Chairman and a member of staff of the Central Tender Commission have been arrested on charges of ‘bribery and abuse of office’… I am not saying ‘they are guilty’; I am not putting myself in the place of the judiciary. Who knows, perhaps they will refute the allegations against them and prove their innocence… Time will tell.
However, it is appalling that an important state institution such as the ‘Central Tender Commission’ is even associated with ‘bribery’, ‘corruption’ and ‘abuse of office’. These incidents heighten distrust in state departments and institutions, even diminishing the public’s sense of belonging to the state…
What has this country come to? Wherever a ‘tender’ takes place, a foul smell follows… Everyone looks at every tender with suspicion… They have rendered the word ‘tender’ unpleasant…
A system has been created in Northern Cyprus where shamelessness, insolence, greed, and modern banditry reign supreme.
All kinds of corruption, irregularities, and lawlessness are, unfortunately, carried out with reckless abandon.
Corruption and insolence have merged; those who commit all kinds of dirty deeds think that nothing will happen to them, that they will somehow get away with it.
Until now, so many have ‘beaten the rap’ that those who are aware of this think, “Nothing will happen to us either.”
Public order has become a rotten structure and is getting worse by the day… All values are rapidly decaying…
The state of our government departments and institutions, whose duty is ‘service’, ‘oversight’ or some kind of ‘arbitration’, is heartbreaking… The corruption in these places shows how disastrous our situation is.
Public order has turned into a system of profiteering for some, rather than serving the people.
Interestingly, some incidents and irregularities are known and discussed but never come to light… Thieves and scoundrels walk around like respectable people. When some corruption is exposed in some way, we must not let it go; we must follow up on it relentlessly…
For example, the exposure of the ‘diploma fraud’ at the Cyprus University of Health and Social Sciences is actually an opportunity to crack down on irregularities.
Diploma fraud is a horrific example of how much corruption, irregularity, and lawlessness there is in this country, and how far one can go and how shameless one can behave in this regard.
We have seen administrators who are so out of touch with reality that they will grant a ‘bachelor’s’, ‘master’s’ or ‘doctorate’ diploma to individuals within an hour in exchange of certain benefits, and people who are so out of touch with reality that they will accept this.
However, what is even more harrowing is that this diploma fraud has infiltrated the state, drawing in high-level public administrators, politicians, police officers and soldiers… It is also claimed that there are people who have obtained fake diplomas and have not yet been exposed…
The attempt to gain positions one cannot achieve through hard work, to rise through the ranks with a fake diploma, to secure more income and prestige through corruption, is the embodied form of decay.
The attempt to obtain a diploma in an hour without any effort and to elevate one’s status in the public sector is both corruption and unscrupulousness… If a person loses their conscience, forgets shame, does not realize that they are usurping the rights of others, or does not care, and of course does not hesitate to break the law, there is no evil they will not commit.
If there is already decay in a place, none of this matters anymore.
The owners of the Cyprus University of Health and Social Sciences filed a complaint with the police, alleging that the individuals they appointed as administrators had fraudulently transferred the university’s funds to their own accounts and defrauded them. This complaint also brought to light the ‘diploma corruption.’ What if they hadn’t filed a complaint? If they didn’t, those who obtained diplomas unjustly would walk among us as respectable people, as if nothing had happened, and would have reached the positions they wanted to attain…
It may seem like a harsh assessment but wouldn’t someone who stoops to obtaining a fake diploma do even worse? Wouldn’t anything be expected from someone who has lost their moral compass?
Since we learned about the fake diploma incident by chance, who knows what other forms of corruption are going on elsewhere and being covered up.
Now you understand better why unqualified people are appointed to head institutions, don’t you? Of course, so that they can be used more efficiently…
Those who govern the country are responsible for the people they appoint. Will the people they appoint get involved in corruption and they themselves not be held responsible?
The Chair of UBP Kyrenia Women’s Branch also obtained a ‘fake diploma,’ but those who should be upset about this are offering her preferential treatment when she goes to the court, involving the judiciary in politics so that members of the press cannot observe the trial, and they can have her brought to court very early in the morning. Or, the case file of the person in question can constantly be sent back and forth between the police and the prosecutor’s office to delay the judicial process…
Oh, you can say, “Well, yesterday the Chair of UBP Kyrenia Women’s Branch was dismissed.” Of course, this was not done willingly, it was entirely out of necessity… This dismissal was due to public pressure, internal party pressure and, probably, persuasion from places of power where permission was obtained… They even gave it the guise of a ‘mass dismissal’ just to remove the Chairwoman of the Kyrenia Women’s Branch, and needlessly sacrificed the Chairwomen of the Nicosia and Famagusta Women’s Branches as well… They added a veneer of reality to it, as they saw fit…
Returning to our topic; while many people in the public sector act like members of a rent-seeking gang, who among us feel comfortable? To stop the decay, we must declare war on corruption, irregularities, and dereliction of duty.
Citizens who are disturbed by corruption and civil society organisations alike must become a force of pressure. Governments and those who rule the country must be held accountable for the corruption that has occurred during their office, and even prosecuted. There must be a strong reaction to the attempts of the country’s leaders to protect criminals who are members of their parties…
The police must be bolder in combating corruption in the public sector and should be further emboldened by public support. The prosecution must pull itself together and stand on the side of justice and the rule of law, not necessarily on the side of those who govern the country. The courts must complete corruption-related cases more quickly and impose exemplary punishments wherever possible…
Honest people must be braver than dishonest ones to prevent corruption…
This article was originally published on 14.11.2025
Source: SHAMELESSNESS, ARROGANCE, AUDACITY, MODERN-DAY THIEVERY HAVE TAKEN OVER EVERYWHERE…
