Africa-Press – Lesotho. Muckraker is always amused when the government and the opposition talk about the reforms. It’s either they are urging about something or pretending to be agreeing.
One day they say they are ready to get on with the reforms. The next day they are shouting from rooftops over some minor issue. There will be more meetings and more waffling.
Occasionally, some NGOs salivating for easy donor money, will bring them into a room for some more discussions. Radio stations and newspapers are forever eager to dial up the volume from the usual chatterboxes and drama queens.
In the end nothing moves. The reforms remain stuck in mud while politicians smear dung on each other. None takes responsibility for the lack of progress.
These monkeyshines only frustrate those who don’t understand that this endless brouhaha has nothing to do with the reforms but the politicians’ obsession with scoring cheap points against each other.
What makes it worse is that there is always some donor willing to fund this charade. Last week we were told that the EU is giving us some M172 million for the reforms.
That is on top of the millions they spent over the past few years to keep the politicians talking. Everyone who claims to be interested in the reforms is eating something from the EU.
Well, everyone except the media because they are the only idiots happy to be told their “role is to inform and educate the public”. They are the only ones not on the EU’s feeding trough.
Meanwhile, politicians, bureaucrats and NGOs are munching the EU money. Muckraker has a simple way to get politicians to stop their tomfoolery. Give the MPs 30 days to complete the reforms.
Tell them that after the deadline M1000 will be deducted from their salaries for each day they delay to pass the reforms. Keep charging them until they deliver.
You can be sure the reforms will be passed in record time because any delay will hit them in the pocket. The reforms are being delayed because someone else is funding them. Link the reforms to their bread and they will be working overtime.
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