Transparency begins at home

By Iftekhar Sayeed, Dhanmandi, Dhaka
13 April 2006, 18:00 PM
I refer to a certain German organisation that is trying to teach a 1,400-year old civilisation that corruption is bad. Nobody ever told us that, of course.

The said German organisation would do well to look into the financial shenanigans of a certain German chancellor who allegedly received a certain amount of money from a certain French prime minister through a certain oil company. The said Chancellor resorted to such underhand tactics to win a certain German election in order to push through a certain single currency. He felt - astutely - that without the said single currency, the nations of western Europe would revert to their earlier savagery. The whole matter has - certainly - been hushed up.

Let us return to our own, splendid civilisation.