Good news

Some times no news is good news. However, when it is already news then it should be more than virtuous. The news is that the anti-corruption authority, though belatedly, has tutored various districts administrative offices to evaluate the properties, land and other bank balances if any, of those former ministers who happen to be the locales of those districts. The district offices have been also told to discover the wealth of the ex-ministers, supposed to have amassed during their tenure in Sing Durbar at different intervals of time, so that a sort of inquiry could be initiated to ascertain as to how those corrupts amassed the wealth? Absolutely, the footh-path residents of the recent past who till the other day had to borrow the money for a cup of tea have become multi-millionaire, some have touched even the ranks of billionaires by the "grace of the Almighty", all of a sudden. This sudden change in their living standards and style of living in the present day Nepali society have not only flabbergasted the informed citizenry but have also come as a bolt from the blue to their own immediate neighbors.

One gentleman who used to sell chilli in the neighboring community in a district close to Pokhara has now in his possession seventeen posh buildings in Kathmandu. Yet another gentleman who used to associate himself with his friends simply with a hope that his friend would pay the bills of his cup of tea is not only a billionaire but has, strong rumors have it, one flat in Australia and as if it were not enough reportedly owns a gasoline station in the United States. The third man hails from Biratnagar. His friends talked that once by chance the strap of his rubber shoes got torn out. He then borrowed some five rupees from his nearest and dearest friend and assured the friend that his money would be returned back the next morning. The same man reportedly owns a good number of transport vehicles and has recently invested a hefty amount in some airline business. The tragedy is that he is yet to pay rupees five back to the friend who supplied him with the said amount in order to repair the rubber sleeper.

What is really a scoop sort of news is that the CIAA has also notified the Morang district office to go in for the investigation of the wealth, the real one and the now swelling one if any, that of the commander of the agitating parties who is concurrently the Right Honorable Speaker of the Mock House of the People’s Representatives—Girija Prasad Koirala. Well, not bad but then how the CIAA authorities will nab all those men and women who constituted the most infamous "unconstitutional power centers" as and when some one near and dear to them rode over the saddle of power. In saying so we don’t wish to go in for the names who constituted to such illegal and unlawful power centers but yet maneuvered the country’s politics in such a manner that benefited them both politically and economically. The question now arises as to what the CIAA will do of those who acted as the ministerial men or for that matter the prime ministerial men who in effect reportedly acted as a bridge in between the men in power and the smugglers, cartel men and the Mafia men? Nabbing these who ever remained in the dark but maneuvered the politics for their personal economic gains will really be pretty difficult. But then this should be the problem of the men in the anti-corruption authority.

The list will be unimaginably long which is not the intention of this write up. However, our intention is that we wish that such corrupts must be disciplined and that too at the earliest.

Nevertheless, we fail to understand as to how the anti-corruption authority will ascertain the Amount of wealth drained out of the country? What would be the mechanism? Will not it need the support of foreign governments? If yes then how the CIAA authorities will proceed?

The best idea coming to our mind is to approach the foreign "democratic" governments who have been day in day out championing the cause for the control of corrupt practices. Hopefully, the countries championing the control of corruption will come to support the CIAA provided the latter approached them with guaranteed details.

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