Honesty and our politicians
Esam Sohail, Kansas, USA
The finance minister's reaction to the recent Transparency International (TIB) report makes an incredibly comic reading, except for the sublime tragedy it hides. At a July 3, 2001 press conference, the then finance minister SAMS Kibria made exactly the same charges. As The Daily Star reported the next day, Mr. Kibria pointed out that the TIB was an anti-Awami League organisation whose founders included, among others, Mr. Saifur Rahman! Now, in 2003, only the names of individuals and parties (doing the attack and the defence respectively) have been changed. The fact is, both the ministers have been vocal supporters of the TIB when in opposition and participated in regional Transparency International conferences as delegates during their tenure on the Opposition benches. It is a shame that both the ministers have chosen, when in office, to defend the very ills of corruption that they decried when in Opposition. I think children in kindergarten have more intellectual honesty that our politicians.
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