I do not agree. You probably do not understand how corruption is implemented in most countries. Allow you to explane. The corruption chain in the government can be represented as a pyramid, where junior officials are located at the bottom of the pyramid, and top officials are at the top of the pyramid. Nobody in the country wants the pyramid to be destroyed, just every participant in this chain wants to move up. To summarize: the government is not interested in transparency and lack of control.
You really sound like someone who is from a very corruption prone country, I am as well, and I totally understand what you are talking about. In fact, in a lot of the less developed and developing countries, corruption has dug so deep that it would take some huge cleaning process to be able to get it out of the way.
We are talking about top officials doing whatever they like, the lower chain masses trying to find a way to fend for themselves since the government cannot provide for even their basic needs and amenities, and putting all these together, it has made corruption to be like a virus in such systems that has really affected every single citizen in the country.