Corruption allegations involving administrative executives have been flying around so thick and fast as to first make us nauseous and then rather numb and indifferent.
One starts to wonder what is the point of all these allegations hitting the media every day when corrective action is not seen to be applied.
Truth be told, this country has no good record for tackling alleged corruption in high places. British Members of Parliament have gone to prison for receiving rewards for help with parliamentary questions or with nationality problems, or for claiming fictitious work-related expenses.
I was in the UK when the “Poulsen affair” ended at the Old Bailey in London. Newspapers reported that the court had found architect Poulsen guilty of corrupting a British and a Maltese minister in order to secure the Gozo hospital contract.
Both ministers were named. The British one resigned but the Maltese one didn’t – perhaps the affair was hushed up in Malta. Mr Poulsen went to prison.
Has anybody of any standing ever gone to prison for corruption in Malta? Would you blame us, poor plebs, for regarding all these corruption allegations as a total waste of radio and television air-time, and newspaper pages?