Persistent, muckraking journalism only bet in war against corruption

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Getting politicians to listen to the cries of ordinary people is no easy task. In the West, it is quite common to find protestors sending tonnes of rotten tomatoes, or in the case of George Bush Senior, farmers upset by his comments on broccoli sent tonnes of them to the White House, just to pass a message.

In the UK, an angry voter splattered former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott with an egg in 2001. Here, though ordinary people now more than ever, are concerned about issues of governance and rampant mismanagement of public resources, we are far from effectively shaming our leaders this way.