CCoFA reminds: Govt.’s duty to update public

Dimapur, November 5 : An angry Coordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration (CCoFA) has reminded that public authorities are convention supposed to regularly update the public on issues of public concern. The anti-graft community platform issued a statement on Saturday reminding the Nagaland government of its duty to make public the charge-sheet pertinent to the fuel adulteration racket. “CCoFA would like to clarify to the public that though the SIT is believed to have submitted its chargesheet, it is yet to see the report since a copy wasn’t given to it. Even after a lapse of 10 days, the CCoFA is still in the dark as to the contents of the chargesheet despite the assurance of the chief minister,” the organization stated. “Secondly, it is incumbent upon the SIT and the government to announce to the general public that chargesheet has been filed in the court instead of the CCoFA making an announcement.” An annoyed CCoFA remarked that it was not supposed “to run from pillar to post looking for a copy of the chargesheet but it has been doing so for the past 10 days.” “The government is already seized of the serious nature of the issue and the usual complacent and dishonourable attitude of the government is most condemnable. It gives credence to the general perception that the government is not at all serious about solving the vexed fuel adulteration issue,” the note added.