Rape of the nation in broad day light!

What tangible political gains we bagged from Nepal's twelve years plus experiment with the "nascent" democracy is perhaps not known to any ordinary citizenry of the nation. However, what is for sure and hundred percent sure is that the political system now in vogue definitely exposed the namesake democrats of the not-so-distant past, who apparently had championed for the cause of the restoration of the present order only to amass wealth at the cost of the national exchequer. The system prevailing now produced thousands and thousands of rotten eggs which in the beginning of the 1990s gave us all the impression that they were the ones who had been sent by the Almighty to this beleaguered land to take proper care of those teeming millions who had been summarily left neglected and dejected by the erstwhile regime.

However, the fact is that those who came to power after the 1990 change were all a bunch of hoodlums, power-hungry lot, and number one corrupts who posed as democrats but were in essence dirty, dangerous and dubious political criminals. It is only after the entrance of this particular sect of political animals into the body-politic that a sort of yet unheard "criminalization" of politics began in the country. The process of criminalization of the politics got a new boost when the political sector wished to sustain it with illegal money amassed through illegal means and in the process it got the support of the all-time corrupt Nepali bureaucrats. The process went on and on to the extent that the nation became poorer and the men handling the system grew richer and richer. What a shame? In sum, what could be said of our leaders, politicians and the bureaucrats is that they were the ones who all collectively raped the nation in broad-day light but yet shamelessly lectured that bright and sunny days were ahead for the rest of the marginalised population.

Thanks to their collective efforts that the nation today stands as a bankrupt one. Nepal could be a glaring example of a country that was exploited, squeezed and looted by its own countrymen most of whom claimed themselves to be die-hard democrats.

We salute such a democracy and the democrats and their henchmen at the bureaucratic level. We salute all those who raped their own mother and did not feel any sort of guilt or shame or any pangs of conscience. Shame! Shame! Shame! May Almighty save other friendly countries from such democrats.

The recent action initiated by the CIAA, although is a welcome move, but then yet its snail-pace at initiating further rough and tough actions against the "similar" rest has already aroused great concern among the informed citizenry. The delay seen in this regard is not only dangerous but is also associated with the possibility of a stealthy and clandestine flight of the Nepali capital abroad. The delay will not only offer time to the financial defaulters to devise ways and means to safeguard their looted properties but will also allow them all to come out of the misdeed safe and sacrosanct. By this we do not mean to question the very motive of the CIAA and its high placed officials. But yet are forced to guess that the delay seen in their actions against the culprits could have some links with the political creatures seated in high political posts who could tell the CIAA authorities to stop these "cleansing" acts for the moment.

Rumors are afoot among our professional colleagues that a good number of present cabinet members too were a stuff for CIAA' s immediate probe. Because how else could these people be in a financial position they are presently in? Can a minister within the Nepalese context afford the amenities they enjoy? Certainly not. Therefore, the CIAA will do well by initiating the similar "midnight" raids in the houses of these political personalities too. At least, it will keep up the rare enthusiasm created by its recent actions against a handful of small fishes seated in the finance ministry.

Unless the sharks and the whales and the lobsters come in to the net of the CIAA, the action taken against the small prawns will have no meaning. Predictably, when the small fishes could yield amounts to the tune of a year's national budget, the astronomical sum that would come to the coffer by squeezing the sharks and the whales obviously might allow us to sustain the nation's financial burden on our own for sometime to come. But, the million-dollar question is will the CIAA dare to take up the lead without any late or hindrance?

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