The Government Institutions Pension Fund has adopted a philosophy of zero tolerance towards unlawful conduct or any form of dishonesty, fraud, theft and corruption in all its dealings with internal and external stakeholders.
In seeking to attain this goal, the fund has in place a whistleblower policy, which is intended to provide an enabling environment for employees and other stakeholders to express their concerns without fear of reprisal.
According to Timothy Garton Ash, author of ‘Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World’, “a whistleblower is someone who, seeing something that he or she regards as wrong happening in an organisation, passes on that information to others in the hope of exposing the wrongdoing”. Whistleblowing must, however, be done in accordance with relevant procedures and through the appropriate channels as set out in policy.
The above description should be distinguished from a person merely leaking information. Leaking information happens when a person (‘the leaker’) discloses confidential information with the aim of making such information public. ‘Leakers’ can come from inside or outside the organisation. The ‘leaker’ is usually an undisclosed person, and uses unauthorised platforms such as social media or approaches newspaper journalists to leak such confidential information. There are various reasons behind leaking information that can range from exposing perceived wrongdoings or disclosing something that is believed to not be in the...
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