Mohammed Al-Hassani Al-Madinah newspaper It seems to me that the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is beginning to drown in minute details. The commission has stopped focusing on big issues such as corruption and misappropriation of billions of riyals in funds. It was recently reported in some local newspapers that the commission was investigating why construction of elementary school in a small village near the small town of Taraba in Taif had not been completed. I do not think the commission was created to follow up small, relatively insignificant cases such as a delay in the completion of a school in a rural area. If the commission continues to use its resources to pursue such cases, the lords of corruption will mushroom and when this happens, the commission will go down the abyss just like its sister organization that was established about half a century ago under the slogan “Where did you get this?” It was said then that the new organization would annihilate corruption at all its administrative and financial levels. It wasn't long before the organization became the butt of jokes. Citizens used to say that they were unable to question millionaires, the organization started investigating poor people by asking them where they got their wealth from! The organization was dissolved because corruption was stronger than its fighters. I am afraid a similar fate awaits the NACC for the same reasons: The corrupt are getting stronger than those who are fighting them. I hope that my fears will not ultimately turn out to be true.
