Extend Anti-corruption Sting Operations to Higher Level

Oct 10, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

The police are congratulated and rewarded for their investigative work and sting operation, purportedly catching a PS accepting a bribe relating to a contract award (Permanent Secretary caught red handed collecting bribe, Oct. 09, 2021.) That is splendid work! There should be an investigative scheme for police officers to expose corruption at all levels of government.
Who authorised the operation (gave the political directive) and why target Ms. Hicks and that Ministry while corruption is condoned elsewhere? My friends and I were having a Friday afternoon chat after work. We all agree that is chicken feed money. We all know of and see corruption all around, some in the millions. The recipients are known and are in higher positions.
We all asked why not extend the sting operation to Ministerial levels? Expose the skullduggery at Agriculture, Infrastructure, and other Ministries! There are reports that some contracts are done without tendering. There are reports that road contracts and huge land deals are done without tendering. A cement factory was approved for construction in a residential area that will harm the people on the East Coast – cancerous pollutants will be in the air while a concrete factory in another residential area on the East Bank was closed down. Are we missing something? How was approval given to build one on the East Coast? Staff considered to be too decent to be employed in some ministries are being removed as in NDIA. Will there be an investigation into the mud flat land deal to a friend from Kingston to Better Hope, 2.98 nautical miles from coast outward?
Will the police please extend sting operations at every agency and Ministry? Will the political operative who gave the order for the sting operation do the same elsewhere?

Yours truly,
Jillian Adams

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