Scarcity is the main weapon of the corrupt. They maintain a limited supply of most things (housing, doctors, crematoriums, public transport, schools ... all sorts of things) so that there is a scramble for these things, and a queue of ppl pleading for help. Rent-seeking follows.
In normal times, people stretch themselves to get by with this, for many reasons (time, bandwidth, disregard, resignation). But these are not normal times. There's no getting by without oxygen and ventilators and drugs. But scarcities don't disappear overnight.
Electoral competitions between rent-seekers is not going to fix this problem. We need governments committed to abundance, in a public way. Leaders must dramatically increase the inputs to development - education and health facilities, and paths to livelihoods in different ways.
Most leaders don't even speak this language. They play electoral dice among themselves during elections, and thereafter spend their terms parading themselves as dukes, barons and earls of rent-seeking. The public can't even imagine such leaders as champions of development.
That is why many 'senior leaders' have nothing to show after many years in politics. They've been around a long time - but no one can tell what they've ACHIEVED. That's what needs to change. The slogans of elections and the excitement of those contests hide a much deeper failure.
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