Now where has all the big talk of Transparency and Accountability (T and A) gone with this crowd running the show for us now?
The last ones we had sang T and A at every tick of the clock day in and day out.
We the general public had a darn good idea of what was going on from it. Being kept informed raised our general understanding, especially of critical issues.
This new crowd we have in place now are apparently not into ‘keeping us in the loop.’
As recent as last Friday, our hardworking local media ran smack into a taped notice on a door to one of the TATTE Centre Conference Rooms telling them to get lost.
Left at a loss, the watchdogs of public interest retreated to a corner of the building to wonder why.
What did the former Minister of Finance shuffled out to the Ministry of Women, wanted to hide by keeping the country in the dark to a scheduled meeting with the Lepa electoral constituency leaders?
Why were the deputy PM and the Minister of Agriculture keeping her company in the meeting?
What evil threat does the Lepa current sitting MP, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi pose, for the Minister to insist that he should not sit as Chairman of the constituency select committee to manage the Govt. $1m a year grant?
Would it have anything to do with Tuilaepa always wondering aloud why Govt. still hasn’t paid out the first full million in 3 years they have been in place already?
Since when did the Minister have any say in the independent choices of the constituencies?
Is the media in the Minister’s bad books for any embarrassment from reporting on being shuffled out of her senior Cabinet posting and the controversy that maybe behind it?
These were only some of the wild ramblings the unsettled media was forced to ponder while trying to recover from the shock of the shut out.
The loss of T and A is shameful, if this is what is happening now. We deserve to know and understand what is going on around us to make better decisions for our own sake.
“……if there is any dark side to T and A what would that be, dear?