Uganda Wants to Take A Corruption Feather from BolehLand
By Why LIE-dis N LIE-dat
They say that 'birds of a feather flock together,' and it 'takes a thief to catch a thief' (with due respect to another blog that uses this phrase)
And in the Global Smart Partnership Dialogue, the delegates including from BolehLand and African nations seem to be fanning their frustrations at their countries being beset with corruption. And they are seeking those who share the same predicament for help to combat this disease that is prevalent in their society.
And who do they turn to among themselves who may have a better record than theirs at tackling corruption, BolehLand!
Seems Uganda is seeking BolehLand's help to fight corruption as reported in Bernama today, 'Uganda seeks Malaysia's help to fight corruption, 28 July 2009.' It quoted 1Malaysia's No2 who said that "the president expressed his concern over the problem, which affected not only Uganda but also its neigbours in Africa, during discussions at the ongoing Global Smart Partnership Dialogue, here. ..In our session with heads of government earlier, I had the chance to discuss with them what has been done in Uganda and the president's vision is to find a way to overcome the corruption problem. In fact, the president wanted our views on how to get rid of corruption.
Many heads of government gave similar views because corruption is a universal problem," he told Malaysian journalists covering the dialogue here Monday… In our session with heads of government earlier, I had the chance to discuss with them what has been done in Uganda and the president's vision is to find a way to overcome the corruption problem…"In fact, the president wanted our views on how to get rid of corruption…"
Ok, who are we supposed to laugh at, the poor Ugandan President or BolehLand's No2 leader?
Either the Ugandan President has probably mistaken the Straits Times of Singapore from that of BolehLand or misinformed by his assistant that he is not in Singapore, one can forgive the Ugandan President for his lack of knowledge of the state of corruption and where BolehLand stands in the Transparency and Corruption index!
One would have thought BolehLand would be a sikit more modest and confess that it is not the model for African countries to look to or look at to fight corruption.
Probably the African leader thought tackling corruption is in the sexual context, like using one's political power to stop investigation into one's sexual preference affairs.
