SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter August – November 2018

The cost of the corruption has often been estimated in numerical terms. But surely there is another toll that the nefarious project has taken: the damage done to organs whose entire functioning was usurped, captured and deliberately allowed to fall into disrepair. And perhaps a biological characterisation such as this is the most effective to describe what unfolded. Think of it as a perverted bypass surgery to rot, rather than remedy, the functioning of a vital organ.