Leaders and the spectre of corruption

Questions of corruption dog this Government with determined persistence. The list of State projects and shadowy dealings over which huge question marks hang runs long, and problematic.

A few conscientious souls at Cabinet express deep concern about our country. A wide swath of the membership of the ruling political party, including sidelined leadership figures, also suffer sleepless nights from the moral and ethical collapse within the party’s upper echelon.

But the leaders who hold the reins of power,