Mad moments

The story about the chicken, the egg, the road, the hitman, the crook, the bouncer and the Teflon man.

In all of this the national police commissioner has been pretending to be the Teflon man hoping that nothing will stick to him. Well, here is a wake-up call commissioner do the right thing, resign.

It doesn't have anything to do with being innocent until proven guilty, as was suggested by the Young Communist League. It's about the perception and the reality.

How can a police office remain friendly with someone who may or may not have criminal connections? Surely the slightest hint of any criminality should be a signal to the top policeman in the country. And the fact that he did or didn't know that his friend may or may not be criminally connected could easily have been checked out by his own staff.

If anyone even suggests that the commissioner may have been a little naive, they are smoking their socks. Naivet is no excuse. The cop has an obligation to the rest of the police force. What message does he send out to his members if he say's that they are friends and there is nothing else to the relationship.

One wonders what would happen if a similar relationship was uncovered by the top cop?

But that's not the issue either. Do the right thing resign. But that's not the issue either.

What should the CEO of the country be doing? And granted we are not privy to what goes on behind closed doors, either at the NEC or in the corridors of parliament, but surely he should be suspended, at the very least.

What messages are we sending to the rest of the continent and the rest of the world? Corruption is cool, come down South and well show you how its done?