Some days are just like that: gut wrenching stories that beg to be told but are buried by perpetrators or brushed off by media then land on my desk with pleas for help.
Sometimes it’s about bureaucratic bungling, delay, refusal to comply with political orders, even lying to deputy ministers and ultimately to the minister so that the politician has no clue as to what is really going on. Occasionally, the tale smells bad as in the case of a federal agency which was recently in the news over a high-profile incident that revealed their arrogance. The agency has also been systematically withdrawing lucrative products from the marketplace to the apparent benefit of insiders.
