When the government proposes to set a limit of five years on cases related to corruption, it creates doubt. It became more suspicious when this proposal was made by none other than sitting Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, who claims that he is clean and doesn't need to be involved in corruption practices. Shouldn’t the corruption cases committed earlier than five years be investigated? No doubt, such a limitation is intended to encourage corruption practice. If one person commits corruption and flees away to a foreign country for five years, he can return home with a clean chit as the law will not be illegible to take action against such a person after five years. Also, people’s representatives, while in power, will misuse their authority to hide corruption committed by them and after remaining in power for five years, they will automatically get a clean chit.

We have many examples of political leaders who have got clean chit in corruption scandals. For example, due to political pressure, the Central Investigation Bureau under the Nepal Police has not been able to open the corruption files and even if opened, the political leadership have been able to suppress the scandals. Some burning examples are the Balmandir land grab scandal, and the Lalitaniwas land grab scandal, among others. Some government servicemen have been punished but the CIB investigation has not been able to reach the “powerful” political leaders. Accordingly, the Police were unable to reach high-profile political leaders in the fake Bhutanese refugee scandal. Instead of getting punished, some alleged to be involved in the corruption charge have become the minister. Now, the government of very corrupt people has attempted to set a limit of five years just to escape from these scandals. Similarly, in the name of irradicating corruption, the political leaders in power have made the Commission for Investigation on Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and other anti-corruption bodies very weak. In fact, the process of assigning officials in such organs, the practice of the quota system developed by those members of the constitutional council is defective. The CIAA officials are being appointed under the quota of different political parties. In other words, those loyal to different political parties or political leaders will get appointments and they close their eyes on corruption files related to their bosses. Such a practice has encouraged corruption instead of controlling it. When arrogant political leaders believe that they are all-in-all, and are intended to encourage policy corruption, we cannot support such an ill intention. Perhaps, all the Nepali people oppose such a perversion.