Shame on you, part 2

This is not a fixation. It is a quest for justice. Some two years ago we had raised the case of a former prison warden who was wrongly imprisoned under a Labour administration.

This government has done nothing to address the matter.

It is a reflection of the ineptitude and lethargy that has seeped slowly like mildew into the government’s institutions.

The same applies to the case of crass corruption, which now, as we show in today’s newspaper, did not only originate and take place under a Labour administration but continued under a Nationalist administration which chose to keep its eyes closed.

What is more worrying is that as Judge Anastasi concluded his voluminous report on Mid Med Bank scandals in the eighties, the same Mid Med Bank under a Nationalist administration was making more unethical decisions.

This is shocking.

More shocking are the statements made by Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami in the Bondi Plus programme where he erroneously blamed the failure to bring the corrupt politicians to justice on procrastination from Judge Anastasi’s side.

How can he say such a thing?

Anastasi’s report was presented to the Prime Minister only to suffer due to the usual hiccups typical of this administration. The report was only laid on the table of the House of Representatives after repeated pleas by several interested bodies and individuals.

The story we have presented in this MaltaToday special report is coming to an end. We are sure that the government will lose no sleep over our point of view.

But our accusation holds and will remain: shame on you. Shame on you for having done little or nothing to address this endemic problem.

We will have our eyes and ears wide open, whenever the Nationalist Party talks or utilises corruption as fuel for its political machine.

We will call out to them to move from empty promises to concrete action.

To win or to govern?

The Nationalist Party’s hardcore members talk of winning an election. They talk of having a set of leaders but that will get them across the border, they do not ask who will lead them when they cross the border.

What we think they need are people who can take decisions, people who have baggage, history, personality, clarity, capability and a good understanding of economics.

Yes, not a multitude of upstarts or stereotypes unable to face the music of the next decade.

It is up to the Nationalist Party to decide its own future. But the party, most especially the young upstarts, should stop attempting to shoot down their better leaders. They have also perhaps underestimated how hot the kitchen can get.

The next five years will be tough and will require serious and demanding decisions in the economic and social field.

The Christian democrats must realise where their vocation lies.

This is not for the light-hearted or for those with little experience in governance or appreciation of the future.

The ball is definitely at the feet of the court jesters; the ones that have made it their pastime to plot, to whisper and to backstab in the media and party corridors that continue to host them.