CTG's performance
The rule/role of the caretaker government is sadly and gradually coming to a close. Over the last 22 months, their efforts to bring a semblance of sanity to our governance, administration, commerce and industry etc may not have met with the success that they had hoped for or what the general masses had expected, but we (the general people) have much to thank them for. It would be rank ungratefulness to reject their good intentions and efforts out of hand. At least we have enjoyed 22 months of comparative peace and tranquillity of normal life without the daily surprises of the past.
Most of us are watching the proceedings unfolding rapidly with anxiety and dreading the day when the rubber stamps will once again rule the roost. My earnest request to the CTG and the Election Commission is that under no circumstances, the “NO” vote slot be removed from the ballots. Rather there should be a provision that if the “NO” vote exceeds 25% of the votes cast (not total votes) or if the highest vote-getter obtains less than 40% of total votes (not cast), then that election should be declared null and void.
We would then, as free voters of a sovereign country, have the power to emphatically say “NO” if any candidate has even a hint of dirt on them. If in spite of that, the wrong people get elected, then we will have none but ourselves to blame as we once again sink into the mire of crime, corruption, nepotism and mal-administration.
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