Public administration
Experts say developing roads and bridges would make life in BiH easier, cleaner and much safer. Government officials say roads elsewhere are worse.
Renata Radić-Dragić (CIN)
15.1.2007
Experts say developing roads and bridges would make life in BiH easier, cleaner and much safer. Government officials say roads elsewhere are worse.
BiH has the experts, but not the will to build modern roads. Petty squabbling over routes and land acquisition has frustrated construction of a road network that could save lives and rev up the economy for decades.
Church, police and municipality officials share responsibility for keeping the thousands of pilgrims who come to BiH’s biggest tourist draw safe. They are saddened, but not alarmed that over the past six years, seven pilgrims have disappeared from Međugorje and two remain lost.
Bakeries, not government inspectors, are doing most of the quality control to insure that bread and flour is hygienic and uncontaminated.
Cramped quarters, inadequent equipment, lack of oversight and standards means lab testing of food in BiH could be unreliable.
CIN tested some of the labs that test food and found variations.
Financial police complain that when they find abuse of office and illegal expenditures by officials, their reports gather dust in prosecutors’ offices.
Political party leaders don’t see any problem with running candidates under suspicion of public corruption. The voters can decide if they don’t like a candidate and courts will eventually rule on the validity of charges.
Years after financial police issue a report about widespread corruption by 21 officials of Srednjobosanski Canton, nothing much has been done and nine of the suspects are running for public office again.
A Federal Financial Police report shows the chain of events that led to the construction of what should have been a jail that sits empty near a school full of children.
Nearly all the suspects named in a 2003 FBiH Financial Police report on corruption that CIN contacted had trouble remembering any criminal complaint.
Busy prosecutor’s office says it has only 10 prosecutors to handle 6,000 live cases, and so a 2003 report by Federation Financial Police long goes unacted upon.
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