CIAA’s activism
The Himalayan Times
15August 2013
CIAA’s activism
It was really encouraging to read the news
report “CIAA chief Karki orders tax evaders booked” (THT, 14 August, Page 1) at
such a time when his legitimacy to lead CIAA was questioned and even challenged
at the Supreme Court. However, getting a clean chit from the court, his
appointment to such controversial position began with high expectation from the
people. During the past five months, it seems that he has been trying hard to
clean his tainted image by chasing the corrupt officials of various
organizations. Instructing the Inland Revenue Department to bring all the tax
evaders to book has been his recent bold step towards his mission of bringing
all the culprits to book.
It is not easy to completely root out the
corruptions that have been deep-rooted and almost institutionalized everywhere.
However, his effort of trying to bring the culprit to book deserves
appreciation. His recent action of putting the Nepal Electricity and Nepal
Telecom corrupt officials behind bars have encouraged people to closely watch
his every move towards his mission of zero tolerance towards corruption. All
the culprits who have been sucking in the hard-earned money of the people
should not be spared. Financial crimes are serious crimes that should be dealt
with in accordance with the state laws that had been made almost defunct for
the last more than few years.
His instruction to bring all the lawyers,
doctors, government and non-government organizations, hospitals, educational institutions
and consultants among others into the tax net seems encouraging. It is yet to
see as to how he and his office move forward to investigate the PLA camp
corruption charges labelled against the top brass of UCPN-M. The people suspect
that the big fish are found in the political sea. And Karki needs to exhibit real
guts to catch them. Let us hope that he will not let the people down.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
