Assessing the adoption of Conditional Amnesty on the Maritime Industrial Corruption to nurture Jobs, Maritime Integrity, and Investment

Fikile Portia Ndlovu*

Corruption cycles and patterns have been proven to be a moral quagmire in which the bright future of a nation can be dimmed. In recent times more and more reports of corruption scams have distressed trade relations through various methods of corruption. This paper focuses on some of its examples within the maritime industry where ships and administrations have innocently or knowingly have been involved in enabling corrupt cycles. This paper is written to explore and highlight the potential reset of corruption patterns and cycles using a national strategy of confession and amnesty type modeling to change strong corruption cycles and bonds in any nation, particularly in nations where corruption culture is rampant. Using a mathematical model to test the impact of corruption provided in experiments by authors writing within the Nigerian context compared with the South African context, this paper proposes that such information can be used to study and inform future laws and strategies for job creation, improved maritime relations & attraction of nation building investments post anti-corruption cultural amnesty reset. This paper forms the base of proposals for more strategic and inclusive methods of dealing with the corruption scourge in order to prosper economies which would in turn prosper and add to the global economy, bolster national securities and promote investment, development and other progressive opportunities around the world while adding more understanding about some of the biggest economies in the African regions.

Keywords: UNCAC, Amnesty and Anti-Corruption, Anti-Corruption National Efforts, Maritime Corruption, TRC reconciliation models, Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)

*International Maritime Business, Massachusetts Maritime Academy; pndlovu@maritime.edu
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