Our incompetent government has been busy trying to bring out laws that curtail our rights as citizens of this beautiful land. They want to take land owned by private guthis while they collect peanuts from tenants occupying public guthi land. They do not have any problem leasing out government land to byaparis for few million Rupees when they know very well that the government could earn billions instead if they invited everyone to bid for such leases.
Our great communist government wants us to shut up and look the other way while they engage in massive corruption everywhere. We have the ‘Yeti’ as our mascot for Visit Nepal 2020.
Maybe, we should just make ‘Yeti Airlines’ our national carrier and just hand over the Nepal Airlines planes to these guys. Why not just hand over the Narayanhiti Palace Museum to the same folks and they can run the ‘Yeti Hotel’ in the middle of the city? Why not just rename our country to “Yetiland’ as well?
Why are our politicians and civil servants only interested to fill up their pockets while emptying the national coffer and bankrupting this country? Now, the story of the security printing press is making rounds in the media.
Once again, it’s the ‘Yeti’ folks who will make tons of money while they set aside billions of Rupees in commission to our netas and hakim sahebs. It seems that the only thing trending in Nepal these days is the business deals of the ‘Yeti’ folks and of course our Tourism Minister Yogesh Dai.
Byaparis all over the world make tons of money by using their political connections. The Guptas had fun for a while when Zuma was in power in South Africa. We all know how the Ambanis made their money back in the day and continue to do so because they are tight with whoever is in power. That’s how the big businesses do their nataks.
But the ‘Yeti’ folks seem to be everywhere and don’t be surprised if their name comes up in any big government deals with foreign companies while Oli is living in Baluwatar. If Oli had his way then this whole country would be leased to the ‘Yeti’ folks.
Maybe, our colleges should have a course for our MBA students on how to use your political connections to grab deals left and right to grow your business. If only our politicians and civil servants were honest and believed in good governance then they would be promoting meritocracy, transparency and accountability and not focus on nepotism, corruption and shady deals that only benefit those in power and their near and dear ones.
Now, this government wants to push the ‘Information Technology Bill’ to curtail our rights to freedom of expression. If this bill is passed then you could spend five years in prison and pay a fine up to Rs 1.5 million if you post any content on social media that our thulo mancheys think harm our country’s sovereignty, security and other nataks.
Our government wants bideshi social media companies to register in Nepal if they want to continue to provide services to Nepalis. So if Facebook ignores our government’s nataks then we will no longer be using Facebook soon. And the same goes for Twitter and all other social media sites. Then, we can just hang around chiya pasals and rant.
I think our government has forgotten that we do have the world’s best constitution and we will not be the best if the government keeps on forcing laws that bans freedom of speech, right to assembly and other rights enshrined in the constitution.
We should remind our thulo mancheys who are in power that they are not going to be running this country forever. Next time around, folks will be voting for the Congressis not because they are better but because we just want to give the other chors another chance to loot us again.
Yes, let’s make Deuba our Prime Monster for the fifth time so that his astrologer can get a hefty bonus and at least our poor lawmakers can get their own helicopter. Yes, Pajero is old school now. And then those in the opposition can stay home because, the law bans public assembly, freedom of speech and other fundamental rights of a citizen.
Our netas should understand that the same laws that they want to roll us over with will one day come back to haunt them as well. We are a democratic country and we elect our politicians to rip us all off. We are not a one-party government or a dictatorship yet.
Yes, we can all dream but dreaming of a totalitarian regime didn’t work for those in power before and it’s not going to happen again and our netas should not forget that every political transition in this land has happened due to the backing of our chimeki. It is because of our netas that bideshis get to play their cards here and we have no one but to blame our evildoers for all the problems in this land.
Guffadi is a grumpy old man who blogs at guffadi.blogspot.com. You may contact him at maguffadi@gmail.com
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