As we get to September 16, who do we look for redemption and deliverence
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We can talk and shout and fret in such beautiful prose all we like. The thing is, if the relevant authorities do not do anything, this and similar swindles will just continue and get better, not worse. Corruption is worse than HIV and AIDS. At least with HIV-AIDS them that suffer and die from it inflict the curse upon themselves and others unknowingly in most cases. With corruption, a few culprits afflict and affect the curse, suffering and injury upon the whole population in the country, including babies and those yet to be born.
So, who do we look to for redemption and deliverance?
What’s Ombudsman Commission doing? Every indication is the Commission is dying slowly but surely from euthanasia. There is no cure for euthanasia because it is self-inflicted, a death by one’s own voluntary choice.
Is Auditor-General going to look into this? May be not because all foreign and national employees need their jobs. And anyway, they do compliance audits for the past years which is stale and almost history by the time their reports are tabled in Parliament.
And the Public Accounts Committee? The Chairman has been rather boisterous recently, otherwise it is a silent and timid fiefdom. The Chairman’s timidity only explodes in the face of helpless public servants, including females that cannot defend themselves. Every inquiry by PAC has been but a slap on the elbows of corrupt heads of departments and other public and statutory bodies. Elected leaders are hardly implicated in AG’s Reports. Em compliance audit work tasol ia.
What about the CID? I think we all know the answer to this and the Sweep Team. Allegations against some leaders are more likely to be swept under the carpet than make and build cases to prosecute the culprits in tribunals or courts.
TI-PNG. These initials stand for This Is Papua New Guinea, a country where you can get away with murder and corruption in broad daylight. Transparency International PNG chapter has gotten a bit too long in the tooth. Occasionally they come out from the crevice to say something or other almost as a perfunctory exercise.
And PNGexposed? We can talk until the cows come home. Or wait until mother duckling lays a golden egg. In the mean time the two legged human beings get more robust, better and smarter but may be not elusive. The only reason why they may be elusive is because our oversight agencies, bodies and authorities are not doing their job. Some of these bodies and authorities are mentioned above.
PNG National Parliament: the Parliament with 111 MPs we send there every five years is potentially the most portent and powerful institution and a single body of people that can best scrutinise and hold the Executive to account. But we all know that over the years the Executive has cannibalised and diminished the role of the Legislature to a rubber stamp. The Parliament has become impotent almost to the extent that it has lost it’s visibility and legitimacy. The bulk of the MPs are horded, huddled and sat on one side of the House. They are singing from the same hymn book, drinking from the same chalice and are stirring and eating from the same wok. The back-bench member is an extinct species. The Opposition is but just a voice in the wilderness no matter how loudly or how often Belden or Sam might shriek or shout.
Without serious, proper and deliberate scrutiny of the Government by Parliament the people’s voice is silenced. And the silence has been deafening not just with this Parliament but many past Parliaments as well. The Executive rules the roost. It can’t be put or seen any more clearer than this – and therein lies the problem including the beginning and any possible end of corruption.
The colour and smell of money is to a corrupt leader what the sight and smell of blood to a shark is under water. They can’t resist being attracted to it and they can never have enough of it. I guess the only differences are one is under water and the other is under the sun for all of us to see. And the shark does not cause any menace to its species whereas in our case the whole country and the people suffer.
I don’t want to talk about Peter O’Neil or the Cragnolinis or LNA. May be O’Neil is not the problem. The people that elected him and the system that gave him a landslide victory is the real problem. So too for other MPs. We must cop the blame more equally than MPs because we put them there in the first place. Something must be done to improve the flawed system which is taken advantage of or abused.
In the competive business world the Cragnolinis and LNA may not see getting contracts as corrupt but, rather, as winning a business advantage over others however unfair it might be.
If PNG was a ship it would be easy to pull up anchor and sail to calmer, more pristine, peaceful waters. Unfortunately we may be stuck for a long time for the reasons we all know well. May be there is a good Captain in waiting somewhere that will deliver us like Moses in the Bible did his people.
So, who do we look to for redemption and deliverance?
What’s Ombudsman Commission doing? Every indication is the Commission is dying slowly but surely from euthanasia. There is no cure for euthanasia because it is self-inflicted, a death by one’s own voluntary choice.
Is Auditor-General going to look into this? May be not because all foreign and national employees need their jobs. And anyway, they do compliance audits for the past years which is stale and almost history by the time their reports are tabled in Parliament.
And the Public Accounts Committee? The Chairman has been rather boisterous recently, otherwise it is a silent and timid fiefdom. The Chairman’s timidity only explodes in the face of helpless public servants, including females that cannot defend themselves. Every inquiry by PAC has been but a slap on the elbows of corrupt heads of departments and other public and statutory bodies. Elected leaders are hardly implicated in AG’s Reports. Em compliance audit work tasol ia.
What about the CID? I think we all know the answer to this and the Sweep Team. Allegations against some leaders are more likely to be swept under the carpet than make and build cases to prosecute the culprits in tribunals or courts.
TI-PNG. These initials stand for This Is Papua New Guinea, a country where you can get away with murder and corruption in broad daylight. Transparency International PNG chapter has gotten a bit too long in the tooth. Occasionally they come out from the crevice to say something or other almost as a perfunctory exercise.
And PNGexposed? We can talk until the cows come home. Or wait until mother duckling lays a golden egg. In the mean time the two legged human beings get more robust, better and smarter but may be not elusive. The only reason why they may be elusive is because our oversight agencies, bodies and authorities are not doing their job. Some of these bodies and authorities are mentioned above.
PNG National Parliament: the Parliament with 111 MPs we send there every five years is potentially the most portent and powerful institution and a single body of people that can best scrutinise and hold the Executive to account. But we all know that over the years the Executive has cannibalised and diminished the role of the Legislature to a rubber stamp. The Parliament has become impotent almost to the extent that it has lost it’s visibility and legitimacy. The bulk of the MPs are horded, huddled and sat on one side of the House. They are singing from the same hymn book, drinking from the same chalice and are stirring and eating from the same wok. The back-bench member is an extinct species. The Opposition is but just a voice in the wilderness no matter how loudly or how often Belden or Sam might shriek or shout.
Without serious, proper and deliberate scrutiny of the Government by Parliament the people’s voice is silenced. And the silence has been deafening not just with this Parliament but many past Parliaments as well. The Executive rules the roost. It can’t be put or seen any more clearer than this – and therein lies the problem including the beginning and any possible end of corruption.
The colour and smell of money is to a corrupt leader what the sight and smell of blood to a shark is under water. They can’t resist being attracted to it and they can never have enough of it. I guess the only differences are one is under water and the other is under the sun for all of us to see. And the shark does not cause any menace to its species whereas in our case the whole country and the people suffer.
I don’t want to talk about Peter O’Neil or the Cragnolinis or LNA. May be O’Neil is not the problem. The people that elected him and the system that gave him a landslide victory is the real problem. So too for other MPs. We must cop the blame more equally than MPs because we put them there in the first place. Something must be done to improve the flawed system which is taken advantage of or abused.
In the competive business world the Cragnolinis and LNA may not see getting contracts as corrupt but, rather, as winning a business advantage over others however unfair it might be.
If PNG was a ship it would be easy to pull up anchor and sail to calmer, more pristine, peaceful waters. Unfortunately we may be stuck for a long time for the reasons we all know well. May be there is a good Captain in waiting somewhere that will deliver us like Moses in the Bible did his people.
