Muhammad Ali Al-Baridi Alsharq The National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) refers the names of ministers who do not cooperate with it directly to the King. This is fine and Nazaha is certainly dotting the i's and crossing the t's even though it is rather late. But why don't these ministers cooperate from the very start? Can their lack of cooperation with Nazaha be considered a kind of carelessness that requires the intervention of the King personally? I don't know how Nazaha dealt with the uncooperative ministers in the past or what it exactly wants from them. What is important is that their lack of cooperation confirms to us that they do not take Nazaha seriously or they do not recognize the importance of its role and see themselves to be absolved of any monitoring or criticism of any kind. A minister is supposed to set a good example for his ministry's personnel. He should be the one urging his subordinates to communicate with Nazaha and answer its questions, whatever they might be. Does his lack of cooperation frankly mean that he is a minister who does not care? Or, as is customary, is he trying to provide cover for corrupt employees in his ministry? We all know that whoever does not cooperate with Nazaha hates or fears it because he is hiding something. So according to people's norms, he is corrupt. Therefore, he does not deserve to be referred to as uncooperative instead of careless. Is this what Nazaha wants to tell us but with diplomacy, the way it always does? We appreciate what Nazaha is doing to rein in corruption in the country. But this does not mean that it should not tell us the truth as it is. Also, this does not mean that we do not understand what is between the lines from such news about our respectable ministers. I believe that Nazaha said a lot in this well-arranged news item that bears no ambiguity and leaves no room for interpretations.
