R T Chang
In the uncoded social norms of our State, corruption and scams has become the rule of the day and is becoming the fertile ground for political corruption. In the past decades there were many scams and scandals that have come and gone and none seems to get even a scratch on its skin.
Loud talks and vociferous agitations have been heard all around but everything comes back to square one. It has become inevitable part to our democratic polity that lawbreakers have become law makers and the ‘bad coin’ is driving the good coin out of circulation. Recently, two news that made the headlines were the NPSC Bribery scam and NPCC booklet on DAN’s reign and failures, which has given opportunities to every citizens to talk and debate about the issues in every walk of life.
No wonder the seeds of corruption and scams have already been sown in our State. It has become a difficult task for every Naga citizen to judge who is right and who is wrong and who is to blame for playing an active role behind this scene.
The administration, high ranking officials, ruling party and opposition were all sailing on the same boat and all were weighed in equal balance and their every answers and each others feed back published seems to be right.
For instance, few months back Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio had sacked his finance minister K.Therie for not producing the white paper for misutilisation of Rs.365 Crore.
It is difficult assignment for the mere public to calculate and analyse the big amount where it has been ingested and digested. If that huge amount be utilized as a productive means, at least some of the district would have been shinning and the Government would be busy in developmental progress.
It has also been known that the Director of Horticulture was suspended due to misutilisation of more than Rs 1 crore. If atleast a few lakh were utilized in a transparent and accountable manner, it would have been a great help to the Naga farmers and could have created employment opportunities to the local unemployed youths and could have also improved the socio-economic conditions of the State in general.
Our state is facing a great problem in lack of jobs and employment opportunities, where thousand of educated youths are unemployed whereas some of our political leaders and high ranking officers were busy in making their own nest by selling jobs to non-nagas.
Thus, it creates social problems that frustrate the minds of the educated youths exposing them to a danger of being attracted to unwanted and anti-National elements. In our state, the trends thus far have been that the small fish has been caught in the net while the big ones have slipped away and out.
That is why, the general perceptions have gained ground that all this ending of corruption and scam is just a tall talk and it is ‘sound and fury’ signifying nothing. If these things continue, then the moral fiber of the state would turn into tatters and there will be no hope left for the Nagas.
