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Arben Ahmetaj changes status: from 'wanted' to 'seeker of Justice'

Politiko 2024-07-30 12:49:02
Arben Ahmetaj changes status: from 'wanted' to 'seeker of

Alfred Lela

The interview of Arben Ahmetaj, once the number 2 of the Rama government, turns the former high official from "wanted" to a "protected witness." Paradoxically, while Ahmetaj may have things that need investigating, he seems to have more to denounce and clarify, that is, to help justice root out a corrupt system of which he was a part until two years ago.

Without making this 'transition' of Ahmetaj from 'sought by justice' to 'seeker of justice,' there cannot be a fair reading of the interview, not only of the situations and context that the former deputy prime minister describes with chilling detail.

The government has no intention of doing this, as it seems from the mortuary silence of both Rama and his subordinates and the media close to the government. The lack of coverage of the interview in most of the media does not harm Ahmetaj's message; on the contrary, it reinforces it and proves again that the government manages public opinion using all the means, some of which the former socialist official disclosed last night in the interview for the journalist Çim Peka.

The phrase "Why didn't you react then" addressed to Ahmetaj as a challenge; it doesn't seek the essence of the truth and what the former official has to say, but what he is or can be. We could ask him for this account if we were looking for a moral profile of Ahemtaj, for example, as a Franciscan monk. However, as a former official at the top of the Rama government who can disclose secrets of power, not his moral authority, we can not pursue this perk unless we want to avoid central facts and ideas.

Justice systems from America to Italy have accepted the cooperation of infamous criminals, from Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravanno to Tomasso Buschetta. Whatever Ahmetaj's vices and transgressions, they are less than the crimes of famous mobsters and especially less than the people he denounces.

If SPAK does not change its course concerning Ahmetaj, it only proves the main thesis of the former deputy prime minister's confession: that Rama and Dumani have a common agenda. This would be the greatest crime against the Republic, far more serious than any financial corruption, because it proves that the Special Prosecutor, enacted to disturb the government's sleep, "sleeps" in the bed of the head of the government.

Arben Ahmetaj and his accusations do not disappear with communicative incense or ministerial changes. To be accurate, we can not ask Rama to throw the rope on the branch and offer his neck.

This is SPAK's task. If it doesn't, what they present to us as work, to use Dumani's expression, is 'intellectual crimes.'

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