An education Ministry civil servant wrote some encouraging words to parents of school children after the execution of Daphne Caruana Galizia. No harm in that and I would hate to diminish its effect if it does anyone any good.

DQSE 02_2017 A Tragic Awakening

But I know how these things work. Civil servants do not take initiatives like this. External communication is strictly controlled by political offices, especially at such a delicate time.

So though the civil servant sending out this letter will have had genuine intentions and the text he drafted unimpeachably says the right things, there are the dirty paws of Evarist Bartolo all over this.

Evarist Bartolo is an old fox. There aren’t many people who can say they have held the same political office for several years across the span of 21 years. He’s a political animal of the most cynical, astute and coldly calculating category. He is the cockroach that survives any nuclear holocaust.

Here he is being much smarter than Deborah Schembri or Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando – his old associates in an unequal political partnership of deviousness – securing PR capital on the back of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s brutal assassination.

Does he want us to believe he is committed to the war on corruption and appreciative of the sacrifice Daphne Caruana Galizia paid every day of her 3 decade career right up to her death?

Then why does he not act on the revelations she published and proved of corruption in his ministry, of bribes solicited and collected by his canvasser, of the laundering of these illicit gains siphoned off tax money, and of his own cover up of the crime?

Evarist Bartolo you must go. Now. Along with your corrupt friends so that you can answer for your corruption. Because covering up for corruption is corruption. We want our country back.