ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY

The Empowerment Dismantlement Committee (EDC)has uncovered very bad type of corruption of Al-Bashir ousted regime where properties of Al-Bashir’s family and co-defendants cost millions of US dollars while the country suffers from severe economic situation over decades. These properties include lands, real estates, agricultural schemes and towers. those properties obviously crystalized how greediness that the ousted regime used to have, as most of Sudanese become impatiently waiting for Thursdays’ press conferences in which the committee often announces the properties confiscated by EDC. Others call it “Khamis Albl” which means Thursday of serious action. The EDC and spokesperson of Force of Freedom and Change Wagdi Saleh quoted to say we are not confiscating others’ rights, but we restore properties of Sudanese people.
For sure every day the people open their eyes with new surprise as corruption of NCP and ousted regime was something unbelievable and beyond the imagination. The clique of 30 June regime has recapture Sudan of one million square miles with highly natural resources and huge potential in a country as big as a continent. After 30 years of NCP rule left Sudan was left on the list of most notorious countries in terms of financial transparency, human rights, freedom of press and living conditions. All these backwardness was due to wrong policy and misuse of power then the conclusion was the absence state of law and rights.
Even day after one year of the transitional government still the country is still suffering the implications of the NCP regime. The lesson learnt from that dark era of Sudan’s history is that Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
Yet people themselves will make dictators by giving them power without accountability. The other lesson is that weakness of civil service is one of the issues which opened the door for previous regimes to misuse the family relations in appointing their relatives in senior government posts, and that is why I strongly believe that civil service must be reformed immediately as it is only one way to stop administrative and financial corruption once, and for all.