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Cronyism/Nepotism “is” Corruption
Kurdistan24 Kurmanci, owned by Masrour Barzani, according to the US Department of Justice and funded by the U.S. Department of State, has announced recently that Treefa Aziz is the new KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) representative to the United States.
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/31969-PM-Masrour-Barzani-appoints-new-envoy-to-US
She is replacing Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, whose nieces I was privileged to teach. I will miss Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman. She dedicated efforts toward a turbulent long decade, soundly, consistently.
Recently, activist Shnyar Anwar Hassan has brought to the public’s attention that Ms. Treefa Aziz’s father, a dentist named Ahmad Golam Aziz, was criminally charged for raping an unconscious patient.
The Washington Post link:
If this is untrue, I deeply apologize to the Aziz family. Of course, I will retract anything I become cognizant upon which is untrue, publicly, with an apology.
But, the above disturbs me more than a little.
What disturbs me more however, is reports that Treefa Aziz is a relative to Ahmad Aziz, Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. Radaris seems to confirm this relationship.
Radaris link: https://radaris.com/~Ahmed-Aziz/1686289949
If the second point “is” true, I have bigger concerns then.
Corruption is not solely bribes and kickbacks. It is a high prevalence of Nepotism and Cronyism, wherein qualifications (hard work and experience) mean little, and the ordinary citizen is disappointed, enraged. A government can blacklist, punish and reward, not based upon merits, but as a personal patronage system, wherein who you know and how much you lie and cajole, are the primary heuristics.
A Yes-Man environment.
Such a high prevalence of Cronyism and Nepotism – corruption – leads to massive migrations, such as with Belarus recently. It strains resources of recipient nations, bolsters Islamophobia.
Voice of America here: https://www.voanews.com/a/iraqi-kurds-cite-work-graft-as-reasons-that-belarus-beckons/6325962.html
A high prevalence of Nepotism and Cronyism – corruption – also leads to internal instability, which often is met via repression. Such examples of repression also raises Islamophobia. And if this cycle persists, insurgency is the inevitable outcome as history shows. Therefore.
I kindly remind President Joseph Biden of his campaign slogan, returning integrity to The White House.
I really don’t feel the above, if true, is an example. It may be construed by some, as hypocrisy.
It is what I have witnessed while employed in Kurdistan for 3 years, and coincides with my thorough research on the qualifications of administrators and teachers, within the region’s private education sector.
I don’t think anyone who sincerely cares for the Iraqi and Kurdish children, the Iraqi nation, would see otherwise. I wouldn’t accept this status quo for my own children. I wouldn’t allow it if I were leadership.
I ask Mr. Biden respectfully to adopt a zero-tolerance policy even to those who step near or inside the White House. A tough anti-corruption, aggressive transparency combination, upon those who deal with a House of Integrity please.
If the above is flawed, untrue. again, I sincerely apologize to the Aziz family, and would absolutely retract, and correct publicly, with an apology. If’ I hit the bulls-eye, I leave the following:
“Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.”
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