President U Thein Sein has warned that drastic would be taken against public servants involved in corruption and bribery, which he said remained rife in the bureaucracy.
The culture of public servants must be changed, the president told a meeting of Union, state, regional and autonomous zone governments in Nay Pyi Taw on August 20.
The government needed the trust and understanding of the people who should be able to rely on public servants, he told the meeting, held three times a year.
It was not the first warning President U Thein Sein has issued against graft in the bureaucracy.
On August 16, he told a workshop on the resettlement of landless farmers of his awareness of corruption in land rights cases.
In a speech at the Myanmar International Convention Center on June 5, the president said corruption was a greater threat to the nation than terrorism.
