Will the Prime Minister act on Alfred Sant’s allegation?

My parliamentary colleague and friend, Alfred Sant, made important and very serious allegations in his speech during the debate in the second reading of the Bill amending the Parliament Commission Against Corruption Act.

Among the many valid points raised by Dr Sant were four particular instances of corruption, which included a particular minister who was being paid between €139,800 and €163,100 per year. And about a foreign company which was asked whether it would be prepared to make contributions to the Nationalist Party if it was awarded a tender.

Up to now the Parliament Commission Against Corruption has been a joke. Despite the fact that ‘smoke of corruption’, as the Auditor General mentioned in his BWSC report, has been evident in numerous cases, the commission review saw no ‘fire of corruption’.

Possibly this is because the smoke was so thick it made it impossible for the politically-appointed commission members to see anything.

If the Prime Minister wants to be believed that he intends to fight corruption ‘Bl-għeruq u x-xniexel’ (radically) – as was promised by his predecessor would Dr Gonzi be willing to set up an ad hoc commission, to be agreed upon between the Prime Minister and the opposition leader, to investigate Dr Sant’s allegations?