SILVER LINING’Lest Fighting Corruption’ turns joke [Archives:2007/1064/Opinion]

Mohammed Al-Qadhi
The parliament elected last week the 11 members of the Anti-Corruption Committee. The anti-corruption code provision stipulates the establishment of this committee to crack down on corruption, the major headache of the country. It is fine that legal procedures are taken to be a solid ground for any action to address this serious problem. We know some members of the committee are good and serious while others have proved to be hypocrites and their actions have shown them as mere clowns. And their selection does not mean in any case that they are meant to perform another role that fall in line with their talents as clowns only.

However, we shall keep our fingers crossed in the hope that the work of the good guys in the committee will dominate. Prime Minister Ali Mujawar pledged in his first speech after he and his cabinet members were sworn in last April to wage a war on corruption. “It is enough for corruption