Now, Eyes On The Wealth
CORRUPTION has been the chief culprit in
laying hurdles towards materialising the concept of good governance which is of utmost
necessity to see the country achieve remarkable economic growth. There is much hue and cry
about corruption and absence of good governance in Nepal, which is the least developed
nations of the world. People have been pointing their fingers at this social virus that
has infested almost every government office and state-owned institutions and corporations.
There is no doubt that the concept of good governance that ensures the consolidation of
democracy has, in the recent times, come under threat from some terrorist elements who are
out to create chaos in the country. To build a corruption free society it has to start
with good governance banking on transparency in every sector. The successive governments
over the past decade have spoken of the need to curb corruption and to further empower
institutions in checking the abuse of power. But obviously the rhetoric has not been
matched by action in the past. Those who have been victims of this malpractice would heave
a sign of relief only if some concrete moves were taken to bring the corrupt to justice.
As such, the corrupt practices like abuse of power, misappropriation of state funds and
unaccountable amassing of property, which have chiefly been hindering good governance,
need to be eliminated for good. And there must be accountable and transparent ways of
governing which play crucial role in stabilising democracy and accelerating the pace of
development.
In this regard, the government’s
decision to submit to His Majesty the King the recommendation to constitute a high-level
judicial commission for the investigation into the properties of all the incumbent and
retired government officials, including the Prime Minister, and their families comes as a
great relief to the corruption stricken people of the Kingdom. Once the Commission, to be
headed by a sitting Supreme Court Justice, is formed and starts functioning, people can
hope for better times ahead. But, as pointed out by some political parties, the
commission, far from being a toothless tiger, needs to be vested with the required
authority to really uncover the corrupt.
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