Reports are pouring in from various upper and lower Sindh districts, which experienced super floods for two years, that the warehouses full of goods for the flood victims are in a bad condition.
Goods in them are rotting and many of them have expired but not utilised. Obviously, along with the Mother Nature our insensitive rulers, inept bureaucrats, crafty technocrats and thick skinned local and national NGO activists have been unkind to these calamity-hit people.
The careless and callous rulers have no time for the victims, and the ineffective and incompetent bureaucrats have no idea of the miseries of these people. How can they evaluate the intensity of their miseries, the shrewd technocrats consider such disasters as opportunities to fatten their own pockets whereas the money crazy local and national NGOs’ activists do not leave any stone unturned to hatch such schemes which become the cause of ruthless wastage of resources only in beautiful breakfasts, lovely lunches and delicious dinners at the start and in the end of the daylong workshops after workshops for the participants.
I am of this firm opinion if the available resources and the relief goods, which are rotting or sold out in the black market at a throwaway price, are distributed or used judiciously and uprightly among the rain and flood-ravaged victims, they would not be in such a plight as the one they are in now.
Is there any humane and God-fearing in the corridors of power and politics to take notice of rotting relief goods inside the warehouses, misuse of money and other resources being misused in non-productive activities and corruption of bureaucrats, technocrats and local and national NGOs in the flood and rain-affected upper and lower Sindh districts?
HASHIM ABRO
Islamabad
