Editorial  

One influential minister in the Koshi Province, Lilaballav Adhakari is under Police custody on the charge of human trafficking. Adhikari is alleged for carrying three Nepali nationals to Japan by producing fake documents. Adhikari, in the capacity of a minister, went to Japan carrying three Nepalis with the plan of reaching them to Japan for their illegal stay there. Each of them had paid one to 1.3 million rupees to some agents in Kathmandu to enter Japan. The Japanese immigration suspected them and after 48-hour detention at the airport, they were deported to Kathmandu. When an influential minister is involved in such human trafficking, it is disgusting.

Earlier, influential Nepali Congress and UML leaders were found involved in trafficking Nepali nationals under the cover of Bhutanese refugees to the USA. That was another episode of disgusting crime committed by abusing authority by influential political leaders.

The political leaders and government officials disposed of the government land in Baluatar by developing fake documents. Even the then prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai were found involved in the case, however, they got a clean chit. Disposing of valuable government land is a serious crime, however, high-ranking leaders are getting clean chit and junior-level government officials are being convicted and punished.

Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli openly accepted valuable land in Kirtipur from the main person involved in the Lalitaniwas land scam in Baluatar, Min Bahadur Gurung to construct the UML headquarters. Morally and also legally, to accept such grant support from a businessman is against the nation’s law but Oli, who believes himself above the constitution, gave the clarification saying that had any political party constructed its headquarters without support from the businessmen!

Those political leaders enjoying power after the 1990 political change disposed of virtually all government undertakings by taking personal benefits. Now, the leaders are planning to dispose of the precious government land for their personal benefit.

The officials in the Commission for Investigation on Abuse of Authority (CIAA) say that the corruption level has increased at an alarming level. They say the corruption practice has reached down to the local bodies from Singhadurwar. The leaders laud about socialism but in practice, they are in a race to loot the nation. They are responsible for demolishing one after national organs and bases where the country stood as a sovereign and independent nation. Political leaders are brokering foreign powers and once they come to power, they rush to serve the foreigners’ vested interests. Thus, we have reached to the conclusion that the nation cannot run in such a manner. We have no hope at all with those self-centred leaders who are enjoying power turn by turn. The final conclusion is that yet another change is obvious.