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Four Innocent Girls Drowned In A Pothole
Four Innocent Girls Drowned In A Pothole
August 7, 2017
Kathmandu: on Saturday, August 5, 2017, four innocent girls drowned in a pothole a contractor or the local project people left after digging the ground for the road construction at the Garuda Municipality – 4 of the Rautahut district where the monsoon rains filled out the pothole.
After the public outcry of the media over the death of innocent girls, an attention of the lawmakers were drawn, and National Human Rights Commission started off doing something to ascertain the possible human rights violation. However, this time, it did not move the prime minister, as did the death of a girl in a pothole in Kathmandu after which he ordered the concerned high officials to fill out those potholes within 15 days.
The government never did take seriously its duty of the protection of lives and property of the citizens, and never paid any compensation to the family members of the victims for the loss of lives of the loved ones due to the negligence of the project people even after Nepal became a federal democratic republic indicating common folks need to continue their struggle against the irresponsible and mostly corrupt government that thrives on the taxpayers’ money.
Anyway responding to the demands of the lawmakers for ascertaining the causes of death and for bringing the responsible persons to justice, and for paying compensation to the families of the victims for the loss of their loved ones, Speaker Onsari Gharti has instructed the government to report on the death of four girls in a pothole dug in course of constructing a road in the Rautahut district in the next proceeding of the parliament.
Most of the local media blamed the potholes calling the murderous potholes forgetting the real murderers were the contractors that left the potholes not guarded making them as traps set for any innocent people to fall in, and then the concerned engineer, the project manager, the local administration responsible for safeguarding the lives and property of common folks, and certainly the ministry that has to inspect the project activities from time to time, and ultimately the prime minister that is accountable to safeguarding the lives and property of the entire populace. These guys should be brought to justice if they were not performing their duty causing the death of innocent people.
Certainly, the families of the victims need to get the compensation for the loss of their loved ones. The price for the loss of any life has been set at one million Nepalese rupees. First, the immediate responsible agent: the contractor needs to pay the compensation. If the contractor did not pay, then the project needs to pay or the concerned ministry then finally the prime minister. However, the practice has been any prime minister pays compensation for the lives of the protestors the police frequently kill that also under the pressure of the concerned political parties.
