Game Rules for a Corruption Free Society.

Corruption Free Governance is Possible- Apply Football Rules.
Or
Football Mapping for a Corruption Free Society.

There’s a reason why the Big Game is a near religious holiday. Football is the holistic celebration of sharing in Zambia and in rest of Africa. A game of bubbling brain and a booming brawn. A show of team strength and a collective delivery system that inspires, excites, upsets and causes patriotic debates. Teams develop devoted fans with tireless support, national flags, tattoos, paint,music,vuvuzelas, hero, culture and critics.

Cotton buying teams of investors in African know the importance of distributing footballs for business motivation to young aspiring players in bushes. Teams in villages fight for its dignity and self respect .Stakes with emotions are high. Deals are finalised. If the bare footed village team beats the industrial city team in a game of football , their family cotton gets more premium. Unequal fingers of the foot wish to transform dreams while kicking the football. With no aids like proper kits, shirts, boots and no training, the bush teams in African villages are ready to face the challenge. There are more then a dozen Hollywood, Nollywood and Bollywood movies showcasing this game of joy.
Let us jump out of the reel life. In a real life, independent Africa and India still fights for justice and cries for effective laws. Unlike blood war games, a football match demonstrates a country`s united readiness and courage. All rich and poor stakeholders in football and in Cricket enjoy ball by ball, minute by second micro details. Thanks to the collective pressure put up by the audience, the score board cannot be hidden. Game has fair rules to make it more transparent then the `political football` played by billionaires in the agro production units, mines and in factories. During production the score board in the factories indicating fixed audit is tempered and manipulated to ease out dirty money with blood transfer to Tax Havens. Careful audit on each and every goal scored and saved shows how important transparency is for maximising the fun and happiness. Recovery called “paid game” is celebrated. No one can steal or hide the profit of the moves scored on ground zero and the thrill of the goal saved. Lost matches with weakness and mistakes are analysed. The show goes on.
Can we apply Football regulations & its transparency with peoples` participation and Citizens charter to our daily Governance?
Today Africa and India is crying to get freedom from corruption. People work hard but team rewards of profits and collective security get stolen. In ancient times kings used to hide profit in churches in the shape of gold. Today, corporate pays extra to CEOs who in turn help them to hide money produced as profit in Tax Havens. Corporate fix politicians to get their favours passed but keep the rest of the workers engaged in the Industry insecure. CEOs help investors to steal money from the `wheel of production` and pump it in the `wheel of speculation` or the `wheel of gamble` called Share Baazar. Share market promises faster but false, unproductive and jobless growth. Government-Corporate-Bankers nexus in actual controls share market. This collaboration steals away the hard earned money of the majority. Stealing and hiding, the profit unlike in football format, is made possible in business with clever audit. Profit monitoring team and production team is kept disconnected.
In Soccer and in Cricket both rich and poor lovers keep the minute by minute statistic of moves towards a goal and runs produced with `profit & loss` in form of possibility to win & lose. My game, my nation, my joy, my information, my sharing with all concerned is excelled and shaped. Sticking points remain- collective ownership & holistic participation in this religion. Imagine a match with many Nos : `no rules`, `no yellow-red card`, `no penalty`, `no injury` and no cheering & hooting of crowds. Goal post is kept clear or remains in a shifting mode. Connect these dots and we can see a waste. A damn bore game with no sense of belonging, no rewards and no punishments. Carry it forward and we see the pitch of weak governance & business work culture. Disconnected lobbies of excellence as small islands in a business team is essential. Disconnection is designed in the system & is not a default. This keeps the system and the market weak and unsafe. Result ? Only 1% beneficiaries in a nation are winners and rest 99% are losers by default.

What goes wrong with the luck of a team ?
Last FIFA- Can we miss the miscalculated trajectory in the penalty shot that saw Ghana loose ? The space called `luck` is reduced by practise, calibrations of skills and shooting of goals. The speed and demand to deliver every minute, every second is so high that there is no time to fall back on business directions and services of experts during the real match. When democracy is strong & stakeholders as watchdogs are alert, the luck is replaced by honest match winning skills. There is no twisting of rules and laws for personal gains. Fair wealth distribution based on skills can increase the income of 99% and the markets can survive.

Information in a business pitch is blocked by match fixing. Profit transformed in shape of dirty money or blood money parked in tax havens, refuses to get recovered. Excuses are designed. Any country`s finance ministry knows how many notes were printed by the Reserve Bank and how much is parked outside as foreign currency. Chances of corrupt match fixing is there but is very less or can be reduced. Pressure of `rich and poor` stakeholders with modern technology helps build a simple system which controls and checks the transparency. Referee as a `human control` can also make mistakes which people and player understand.
Right to recall the non performing player in a game is possible. Same rule cannot be applied in a competitive business of law making in the Parliament. Right to vote is only after 5 years in India. During last FIFA in South Africa, we learned as to why a player is replaced if football gets stuck with his foot for more then 20-30 seconds. Fast sharing of football in the team is essential. Audience can build a pressure and force a change via selectors. Stakeholders in shape of audience and investors hoot and shout when the ball is lost in the crowd even for few seconds. Politicians shout and delay for all wrong reasons to block a bill in the Parliament. The recent victims in India are Lokpal Bill & Women Reservation Bill. British in colonised India and Africa used fast punishment as a tool to force discipline in their system of governance. In India after more then 60 years law makers are unable to sketch citizen charter and an anti-graft bill called`Lokpal` in a single draft and make it a Law.Jails today in India are too small for thousands of corruption protesters. Recently in Delhi a football stadium called Ambedkar stadium was converted into a political jail by helpless police. The stadium was used to keep thousands of protesters demanding probe in the hidden dirty blood money stashed in foreign banks.
Politics and daily piece mill run of the governance under any ministry shall always remain a boring game if rules to control corruption are not identified and fixed. From stadium to Streets and from bushes to the Parliament, people need to collectively apply simple systems for a corruption free governance.
If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If the egg is broken by inside force, life begins.

Let us kick to share our dream football. Act now before it is too late.

Released as original text in Public Interest By :

Rakesh Manchanda- worked as a Director in Zimbabwe, Mali in Grafax Cotton Pvt. Limited and is now in Zambia.

Rakesh Manchanda,
Grafax Cotton Zambia Limited.
5,Mutankaclose,Roads Park,
Lusaka-Republic of Zambia.
Mobile:0978278371.