If you have the opportunity to be a leader in you society, will you make the difference to end negative things from your society or you will allow the negatives things continue in the society? To me, If I have the power or influence, I will make a difference in my society to end negative things like corruption, insecurity and other things that are bad to society.
It's mainly being in the leadership positions of a society or a country that someone can truly make changes that can touch many lives, because their decisions will affect majority of people within that space whether positively or negatively. It's true that we should be the change that we want to see, and it starts with us as individuals, but the impact of the positive change can not touch the whole country, only the people around you, so it falls on our political leaders to rule with integrity and be incorruptible.
What I have observed is that people will enter leadership positions with the intention to achieve good governance, but by the time they mix with the corrupt politicians, before long they will become corrupt too, but I still believe that we have incorruptible politicians, although they will face a lot of battles from the corrupt ones, before they can succeed.