ACC still a non-starter

That an important institution like the ACC, a supposedly statutory body, would be set up without an organogramme and minimum ancillary support being in place, to allow it a proper start, is simply incomprehensible and only betrays the government's lack of seriousness in the matter. Not only the government's but also the ACC's credibility has been put on line by the slipshod manner in which things have been handled since the Commission was set up. Comments from various agencies of the government, contradicting each other, have only helped to confound the problems.

What also causes concern is the fact that there appears to be lack of cohesion among its members, some of whom have gone about ventilating feelings and opinions about what has gone wrong with it and how the commission ought to function. And each of them appears to be speaking in the most self-righteous manner about it. One cannot help wonder if the signs of internal dissension are not putting across negative signals about the inherent capacity of the commission to perform its writ.

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The ACC Chairman's functioning should leave no one in doubt as to who is in charge. It doesn't behove a body such as the ACC to have its members going about in different directions; and, it is for the ACC chief to not only curb the discord, and create a congenial work environment, albeit with the full cooperation from his colleagues in the commission.

The government being the architect of the commission should be obliged to accord all kinds of assistance to it, so that it can work to fulfill its mandate.