Staffing still a Gordian Knot

The cabinet division has also decided to absorb the Bac staff after due screening. But it is not at all clear how the former director is still working in that capacity. It seems an administrative mess-up has created a situation where government orders can be flouted with impunity. How can a former director issue letters when the government has taken a clear position on the matter? Why can't the government resolve it with due speed and clarity of purpose? It is also not clear why the screening process is taking such a long time. The tragi-comedy has been pushed to a farcical point, thanks to inept handling and undue procrastination in execution of government orders.

The incident has to be viewed as something more than an administrative lacuna. If the newly formed Anti-Corruption Commission remains busy with matters pertaining to organisational structure and organogram for such a long time, how can it take up the task of containing corruption? The purpose for which it was created will be defeated if the commission remains enmeshed in an administrative tangle. The government has to act quickly to put an end to this.

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The latest report on how the former Bac director is still working indicates that the administrative set-up of the ACC did not figure prominently in the plan of making it operational. The time factor has been ignored or not attached due importance to. Only that can explain why the government is taking such a long time to implement its own decision. The ACC is intended to be a strong deterrent to corruption; but if its take-off becomes such a lengthy and cumbersome process, then its standing in the public eye is bound to be lowered. The delay in making it operational will only mean deferred action against corruption, believed to be the number one problem of the country today.