A corrupt political lesson has led a 13-year pillage on public money in the pursuit of power. As oil prices fall,further jeopardising the country’s revenues, there is little hope that governance will improve Iraq’s anti-corruption chief sat in his office, or waving his hands in exasperation. “There is no solution,” he said. Everybody is corrupt, from the top of society to the bottom. Everyone. Including me.”[br]Coming at the start of a conversation approximately Iraq’s ailing governance, and what was being done to turn things around,Mishan al-Jabouri’s admission was jarring. “At least I am honest approximately it,” he shrugged. “I was offered $5m by someone to stop investigating him. I took it, or continued prosecuting him besides.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com