I am writing on behalf of a group who protested outside the Henley and Partners ‘gala’ dinner on Friday, April 20, referenced in Claire Bonello’s article in The Sunday Times of Malta of April 29.

Let me clarify a few points for your esteemed readers. We are against the sale of Maltese citizenship in principle, and horrified by the manner in which it is being done in practice. We have long acknowledged the role played by all parties involved: the government, Henley and Partners, and the 171 registered agents, including those in which members of the Opposition may have a strong interest.

Contrary to what Dr Bonello suggests, they have not escaped our ire. Perhaps Dr Bonello may want to join us the next time we take our country’s sorry excuse of an Opposition to task for not having an official position on the sale of Maltese citizenship.

That being said, it would be wrong to downplay the outsized role played by the government and Henley and Partners in all of this, as reported extensively by Daphne Caruana Galizia. Presumably that was among the reasons why she reported receiving, only months before being brutally murdered, letters requesting she take down from her website her writings on the subject.

The questions Daphne raised about the sale of Maltese citizenship remain as important as ever.  We have a duty to keep asking. If we are indeed guilty, as Dr Bonello suggests, of a “differential holding to account”, it is only because we are working down our list. Dr Bonello is more than welcome to help us work through it.