Kohima, February 18 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has labeled the filing First Information Report (FIR) against three officials from Nagaland by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as is just the “tip of an all pervasive mammoth iceberg of cancer.”
As per reports, the CBI filed the FIR against one Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland and two officials working in the Fostering Climate-Resilient Upland Farming System (FOCUS) project in an alleged ‘bribery case.’
According to the NPCC, the bribery case involving more than Rs 2 crore is shocking, but along expected lines considering the “strangle hold of corruption on all levels of governance in the State authored and patronised by the morally bankrupt opposition-less government.”
While appreciates the intervention of the law enforcement agency, the NPCC said that it nowhere near enough and asserted that what is being witnessed is just the tip of a pervasive iceberg of cancer that is eating away at the rights and well-being of the common people of Nagaland, one painful bite at a time.
The rot is systemic, entrenched, and starts at the top, necessitating a troubleshooting exercise at a scale much more proportionate than the one under play now, it added.
To this end, the NPCC strongly condemned what it termed as the “vulgar fallout of corruption unfolding before our eyes” and called upon the powers that be to mend their ways.
Otherwise, the ‘culture of decadence and ineptitude’ that they shamelessly espouse would drag everyone down to a point of no return, it added.
