It
would not be too far-fetched to presume that Governors have an unwritten rule
not to settle inherited debts during their tenures. They simply add a few noughts
to it and pass it on to the next governor. Here’s how they go about it.
It is
acceptable practice for the outgoing governor to make a lot of noise about the huge
amount of cash he’s leaving in the treasury. However, in his handover note, he
quietly and in small print, states what debt he was leaving, but not neglecting
to print in bold, that the bulk of it was inherited from previous
administrations. In turn, the incoming
governor mounts the rostrum and makes his own noise too about the huge amount
of debt he is inheriting from the outgoing governor, but not before he has jacked
it up significantly.
After
the noisy quarrelling and wrangling in public, both parties agree to a
ceasefire in secret at which they accept each other’s claims. After all, they
are two of a kind. The incoming governor simply files the figures away until
the end of his tenure when he too presents it to the incoming governor as inherited
debt from previous administrations .....
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