WIPE OUT CORRUPTION

The Kathmandu Post

13 April 2018

WIPE OUT CORRUPTION

Since the days of Panchayat era, absolute monarchy and multiparty parliamentary democracy, Nepali rulers have continued to vow wiping out corruption from the country. However, nothing has changed. Instead, Nepal has continued to slide down in the Transparency International’s (TI) corruption index. In 2004, TI ranked Nepal in the 90^th position among 146 countries. This ranking was further plummeted to the 122^nd position among 189 countries in 2017. This worrisome trend and most embarrassing situation will continue and persist in the days to come if the political leaders of major parties fail to abruptly and strongly act in the changed political context. Newly elected political leaders with high spirit of serving the nation and its people for the next five years are the hopes of the common people.

It has been common practice in the past for the general people pointing their fingers to the politicians and their coteries among the leading perpetrators of corrupt practices. This situation has eroded public trust in the politicians and parties. The unstable political environment in the past seemed to be a favourable condition for these perpetrators to be corrupt. Also, the politicisation of all the government, semi government institutions and security institutions was to blame for increasing institutionalised corruption. Corruption is characterised by the deliberate abuse or misuse of one’s authority or position.

Nepal has now entered into a federal structure in accordance with the constitution. Provincial and federal governments with strong political mandate are now in place. Prime Minister K.P.Oli has been publicly saying that his government will have zero tolerance for corruption. All the ministers in his cabinet and provincial ministers have shown their commitment to wipe out corruption in the next five years. This demands ending the tradition of abusing their official position to unduly influence the state machinery to protect notorious goons, fugitives, convicted criminals and black marketers, money launders and other corrupt people (“Catch the corrupt” April 8, Page 6). Time has come for the Oli led government to empower the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and let it independently work to lawfully put the culprit behind bars-no matter their political connections.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharajgunj

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