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Bringing in expatriates to run the country's most important agencies is a breath of fresh air and this, despite widespread opposition and numerous attempts to get them to go away. Messrs Lal and Cunningham are the highest profile foreigners hired to run the tax and customs departments. They are doing a wonderful job for the country and for which we should be grateful.
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Saoud Baccus is so right when he daringly states that certain sectors within the Mauritian industries cannot rely on the local higher management workforce to eradicate corruption and inefficiencies.
As a small country where social interactions are so communal,family-based and caste orientated or religious orientated, it is almost impossible to maintain some form of neutrality and objectivity at higher levels in sensible areas such as the ICAC, Customs 7 Excise, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Housing and almost any area one could think of.
Bringing in outside experts and expatriate is one of the options to tackle corruptions and inefficiencies. Other countries in the West have been doing it for a number of years now and this has proved to be a workable solution in many cases.
Quite rightly as he pointed out, only those ones at higher echelons are threatened at losing their lucrative corrupted niche will protest. The vast majority of the population will benefit from this approach and no doubt, this will boost the confidence of overseas investors and donor agencies.
Raj Boyjoonauth (UK)