The Auditor General rebuked government officials for having turned the noble service of public ministry into a monetary commission-den of merchant-thieves’!

Blog post by Dr. Hermann Farrugia

Indeed, it is now in the public domain that the ex-Minister responsible for Energy, then for Health and eventually specifically entrusted with major capital projects has recently self-confessed that he has of late come to adopt a vastly more spiritual and profound religious outlook on Life. So quite justifiably, this must also be for him among very many others. According to John 2:13-23 biblical account, Jesus angrily even quite violently rebuked and drove out ‘the greedy money changers ‘ from the Temple on Monday of Passion Week, just three days before the Pesach (Passover) and four days before his Crucifixion.

Today Monday in Holy Week’22, it should not be too difficult at all to understand how Christ would have impulsively delivered such a similar damning verdict about the rigged process leading to the ‘dubious VITALS CONCESSION’ as well as against the ensuing overtly corrupt administrative and putrid fiscal management of the three state-hospitals deal.

In uncharacteristically direct, strong with no-strings-attached language, Malta’s Auditor General Charles Deguara has publicly asserted that he was morally convinced that VITALS could never have lived up to its contractual obligations. The “dubious concession” had only been granted as a result of “naivety” by certain Government Officials and “gross negligence” in the case of others whose professional responsibility it had been to preempt such blatant abuse.

Our Auditor-General had noted how consistent changes to the original contract signed off by Minister Konrad Mizzi, one-sidedly favoured the sole exclusive interests of VITALS with the Government of Malta rendered nearly completely “impotent” in holding the said concessionaire to account.

Yes undoubtedly, Jesus the Christ our LORD, The Messianic Master, Teacher, and Saviour would similarly have seen red and necessarily sternly have chided these same government officials, public administrators, and accountants for having together generated the audacity to ‘turn the noble service of public ministry into a monetary commission-den of merchant-thieves’.