Unbridled power is robbing the poor
How much does corruption and power abuse cost the ordinary citizen?
Kumar David-August 16, 2014,
The common refrain of supporters of an all powerful unchallengeable Executive Presidency (EP) has been: "What does the common man care about abolishing EP; all he/she is concerned about is the cost of living, children’s schooling; decent housing". Sycophants chant: "SI-CC talk against EP is a game played by the Colombo elite. The farmer, the fisherman and the city worker take no notice". The truth however is that the EP-perfidy costs Punchi Banda in the village and Sarath baas in the city a load of money. Secondly, the abuses perpetrated by UPFA politicos, enjoying impunity thanks to EP, despoil the quality of ordinary people’s lives. The deficit in public edification on this score has to be blamed on us the promoters of the abolish-EP campaign; we have not done enough to explain the extent and seriousness of these distortions in simple words to the public.