As part of the government's recent campaign against corruption, officials have been required to reveal their personal and household assets since December.
Understandably, many are still skeptical about whether this move will really strike a blow against graft, nepotism, misappropriation or other forms of financial malfeasance among government employees. This is not the first time that the government has forced officials to open up their accounts. But previous pushes for disclosure usually did little to ferret out corruption since there were no investigation or verification mechanisms in place to check whether officials were being truthful or not with their disclosures. In the end, most instances of corruption were uncovered by the media or came to light through unofficial information channels.
If the government doesn't learn from the past and install measures to independently corroborate the financial statements of officials, the latest actions against corruption will once again produce limited results.