How to curb corruption if you were the president of your country

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How to curb corruption if you were the president of your country

Corruption is an act of carrying out activities in a fishy manner for the sole purpose of one’s or a group of people’s selfish gain. It is one of many hindrances that limits the development of a country. And it affects the economy because it derails the possibility of a smooth operation in the country. Therefore corruption should be curbed as much as possible. Corruption in Nigeria is a rampant act that serves an obstacle to the advancement of the country. This act can be reduced by taking some important steps, and also with the help of the people in the country as a whole.
If I was the president of the country, I would take following steps to limit corruption to a reasonable degree.

Firstly, I would make sure there is a rigorous screening process for selection into important positions in the country. Each person chosen should possess the necessary values of an incorruptible person. These values could include; honesty, trustworthiness, indelible past record etc. if people of good values are chosen to take up positions in the country, corruption would be curbed to a very large extent.

Also, the presidents, heads of department, ministers that have been selected according to their values should act as an example for others to follow. As long as the leaders of the country are people of good character, and they show their followers to exercise similar behavior, there’s a high possibility of tackling corruption.

Secondly, the activities that go on in government, departments, ministries, should be transparent as much as possible. Everybody in each department should plainly understand the activities that occur and should have an idea when something appears suspicious. When there’s adequate transparency in every aspects of government, anyone that could be involved in corrupt practices would be more careful. This also could reduce the tendency of corruption.

Lastly, a severe punishment should be in place for anyone that is involved in such practices. The punishment shouldn’t be lenient to anyone, and anyone found guilty should be punished as deserved. With this in place, people would tend to act purely and corruption would be reduced drastically.
In conclusion, I believe taking the above steps would curb corruption to a reasonable extent. These steps include transparency in every activity in the country, defaulters punished severely, heads should lead by example and a rigorous screening process should be in place for the appointment of ministers and other important positions. Although, all these steps could be adopted, and corruption would still exist. This is because corruption cannot be completely curbed, it can only be reduced to a reasonable extent.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider replacing "in a fishy manner" with adverb for "fishy"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 9.8082437276 255% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 8.0752688172 272% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2301.0 1977.66487455 116% => OK
No of words: 436.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27752293578 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04612974892 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 212.727598566 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465596330275 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 709.2 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3778808742 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.875 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1666666667 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 5.45110844103 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.53405017921 154% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103187134801 0.236089414692 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0375465621333 0.076458572812 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0463696883898 0.0737576698707 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0616887805288 0.150856017488 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382131449243 0.0645574589148 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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