Just peruse the daily coverage of the new FNM administration budget presentations if you have a strong constitution as the old folks used to say.
What’s worse is the PLP members of Parliament, in an attempt to exonerate their party are embarrassing themselves by appearing to defend the indefensible with irrelevant discussion about them starting NIB etc. How banal.
It seems it would be better to offer apologies for their fallen comrades and suggest that they didn’t even know these things were happening. But maybe they did know and went along with the expectation of forming the next government in the hope of never being found out.
I can’t imagine, for the life of me, how so many bureaucrats and political operatives would not speak out against these practices. Couldn’t they release information to outside sources? Maybe they felt threatened?
How could the Financial Secretary go along to get along in this way?
Did all the people that must have known these things lose their moral and ethical compasses?
It is a sad commentary with a horrible reflection on us as a people and our nation in general.
To waste and steal taxpayer money as alleged and then implement value added tax to support it, is unforgivable.
Thank goodness there was a change in government to at least air these matters. Now we await permanent solutions and possible court cases.
God speed to the decent civil servants among the government bureaucracy and the continued perseverance of the new government members to get as many details of these matters presented to the House of Assembly as they are legally allowed to. Then pursue resolution thereafter.
In doing so, maybe, just maybe, this new administration can claw the government back to fiscal and ethical prudence.
So to ask those that left the destruction and those that have to sort it out, how do you sleep? For obviously different reasons.
