Generally if we are to talk about corruption in Nagaland, we picture the group of less literate politicians whose ‘bread and water’ is money but it is to be noted that there are still a bunch of uncivilized mangy curs in the bureaucracy who claim to be intellectually educated and has no sense of public responsibility, are second to none. This group of educated men/women have been under safe haven, undisturbed from the cries of the suffering public in their anguish against corruption. The public should realize that these bureaucrats with their degrees and “backdoor appointment passes” aren’t representing the state bureaucracy to serve the people as they are meant to be (as it is the purpose of the bureaucracy), but these officials have only one agenda before they retire from their service (before becoming a politician after retirement) and that is to amass as much wealth as possible and give their loved ones the luxury to spend the public funds to lead a lavish life and to remind the poor public that we can’t match their class no matter what and thus giving a blow to our hopes and aspirations by making us feel inferior to them and to not question them and the felonies they have committed.
Unbeknownst to us, some of these bureaucrats are actually so busy in their office, not because of pressure for the completion of a developmental project of course, but because since Nagaland is a “dry state”, they want to get their hands on every pie (public schemes) and take their large percentage cut with the sanction of the funds even though it was the public who had to do all the toil for the schemes from the scratch.
Because they are ignorant they do not understand that they are also endangering the future of our society, them and the politicians alike. They do not know that it is not them who are going to have the last laugh when the time comes and all the poor perishes away due to starvation. The last laugh would be laughed by the foreigners (outsiders) when they occupy a new beautiful land with ease and make our lands their cities.
If the world was just Nagaland, with all its menace of systems then we would have accepted all the imperfections in our society today but it is not and having learned about modern ideals like “Human Rights”, (the reason why the super power nations discontinued colonization of another territory) we can’t be mere spectators when the ignorant in their “delusion of grandeur” are trying their best robbing every ounce potential source of our future.
Human rights doesn’t allow those with power and strength to physically harm or abuse anyone neither does it allow the corrupted authorities to exploit and deprive the people of their rights. We Nagas as a race of humans, have every right to development which is why we agreed to have a State in the first place. These are simple logics and by all rational means we the people have every right and power to change the government, law, leaders and the system itself.
It is advised to the bureaucrats, from the office LDA to the Secretary of a department be it the sanitation department or the industry department to be more productive and help the public (as it is their duty to,) meet their appropriate central funds so that we could as from now start building our State’s economy and revenue.
We have even considered that it was the ignorance of the people and by the influence of the system, which made all those govt. officials to get away with all the felony they have committed in the past, siphoning off the public funds but no more shall this trend continue. Yes, the people will begin the indictment of any corrupted officer in court. We with our best knowledge about law would come on to those extreme offenders in the government and their lawyers and retirement won’t be able to help them like ignorance does today.
(On a side note, it would be for the better if the government could provide garbage bins [not the cheap small ones] around the city blocks at least for now, because just sweeping away the dirt and collecting it on the side doesn’t make it any cleaner. Can’t we do a little better than that, after all we do deserve it don’t we?).
