Letter: Looting with impunity cannot go on

Vijay Surujpal of Phoenix writes:

The perpetual looting of the public fiscus with impunity may just be pushing the country to a point where recovery may be impossible.

As a nation we will continue to haemorrhage if the president does not intensify his stance to bring criminals to book.

Corruption has been endemic for the past 26 years without any substantive convictions of state officials.

The Covid-19 funding for personal protective equipment (PPE) intended for the frontline workers like nurses and doctors has been plundered and looted.

In the midst of a pandemic, who would have expected that vultures would enrich themselves at the expense of precious lives?

When a situation is exploited to feed one’s insatiable desire for money without an inkling of empathy for the infected and dying, then humankind needs to be extremely worried.In what seems to be a public relations exercise, the president has put in place an inter-ministerial committee to unravel fraud and corruption related to the Covid tenders.

This seems highly irregular as the members are conflicted, as they are reviewing their own work.

One cannot be a player and a referee in the same match.

What is needed is an independent investigation which includes civil society organisations and public watchdogs.

The incessant looting, plundering, mismanagement and malfeasance associated with the money belonging to the citizens of country needs to come to an end.

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