As Sri Lanka slumps down yet again in the Corruption Perceptions Index, the slump vividly reminds voters in the city that the octopus of corruption continues to grip governance institutions in its slimy
tentacles. The harassment of a whistleblower of the garlic scam, despite being hailed as a hero by the public, brings into stark relief the audacity of the corrupt. Most realise that the many arms of law enforcement shield the corrupt and do not protect the people.
Despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression, the residence of an investigative journalist is invaded at gunpoint and rocks and organic fertiliser hurled at his house. A social media activist is abducted by those, it turns out later to be police whose operating manual was not the Code of Criminal Procedure but the Gestapo Manual (rev. Ed. V. Putin).
A realist would be foolish to put much faith in Governmental institutions and the various arms of law enforcement to do their job in the way it should be done. Instead, a realist, tired of the continuous anti-people behaviour of officials who are under a duty to protect the people but who instead have chosen to betray their oath to uphold the constitution by doing the illegal biddings of their political patrons, would advocate outsourcing the job of fighting waste fraud and corruption to whistleblowers, protect them from possibly violent retaliation, and incentivise them with a bounty.
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