Politics as usual?
KA, USA
Is the honeymoon of trust and hope coming to an end? The glorious battle against corruption that promised a new beginning was vastly diluted, if not put under question mark, when a confirmed young brigand was apprehended and released to negotiate a "departure deal". If there are valid charges of corruption against an individual and a leader, why should not they be prosecuted under the law of the land to make an example instead of sending them off on a paid vacation? What assures that they will not return at some point as grudge-bearing heroes? If for one leader there was "negotiation," for another leader there was downright arbitrariness. Again, if that individual has committed a wrong, she should face the laws of the nation and not a group of MPs in a foreign country. The equation of our national crisis as the quarrel between two women is naïve and downright misleading, and deliberately ignores the deeply entrenched disease amidst us. The moral uprightness, the ethical resolve and the palpable transparency that the current government presented and promised show signs of strain, and we are left wondering if after all the hoopla and expectation, it is going to be politics as usual.
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