The 61st annual report of the Auditor General of Nepal has presented concrete evidence of the extent to which our state system has fallen.

This is not a simple administrative error. It is a systematic robbery, which has thrived under political patronage for decades. The tendency to squander the sweat-earned revenue of the people in such an unaccountable way can hardly be condemned.

In fact, the reality of this absurd amount is not only a financial crisis, but also the last straw of moral decay. Even when the Office of the Auditor General exposes such facts every year, neither the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority takes concrete steps, nor the Audit Committee of the Parliament is seriously active. Instead, the guilty return to the leadership of the ministry, the contractors are rewarded and the parties remain silent. This silence is not accidental, it is silence of complicity.

Our current state structure has been transformed into a machine for enriching a limited ruling circle, rather than for the benefit of the people. Governance is becoming a tool of exploitation rather than power. Prime Minister's foreign visits, minister's car, secretary's house and contractor's bank account are paid by taxes paid by the people, but there is no medicine in the hospital, no teacher in the school, no black paper on the road. And the government says - development is taking place.

What is the alternative now? Parliament should make the Auditor General's report a top priority and immediately form a special inquiry committee and bring the culprits to justice. No government, party or employee should escape this accountability.

If we remain silent today, we will be the characters of shame in the history of tomorrow. The people can no longer wait to break this cycle of looting, nor can the conscious class stay neutral. Fill the consciousness because this question is not only of 13 billion, but of the fate of the entire nation.

– Santosh Simkhada , Tokyo, Japan