General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts and sells financial services. General Motors produces vehicles in 37 countries. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales.
Previously, the company recalled over 2.42 million vehicles that cost $600 million due to a slight untraced manufacturing defect. The vehicles’ front safety lap belt cables “can fatigue and separate over time,” according to a GM statement. A separated cable can increase injury risk to front-seat passengers. The company said it has instructed dealers to not sell new or used crossovers until repairs are conducted. This is the height of extension of responsibilities and owning the an unintentional misdeed.
This intimate an extreme demonstration of sanity, dutifulness and owning of responsibilities for an inappropriate unintentional deed. It is a moral transferring act that may aspire our leaders! It is high time, the public office bearing individuals in this piece land learn the height of the impartial and rational extension of responsibilities.
Identically, a South Korean ferry carrying large number of passenger mostly students sunk, killing hundreds of children. South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-one during of a press conference in Seoul owned the responsibility and announced his intent to resign over the Sewol ferry sinking. This depicts a matchless example of generous accountability, which is never possible in our case.
Nonetheless, there are multiple incidences of frauds and irregularities and embezzlements occurring in this piece of land, till date no culprit is punished and no impartial accountably is exercised. In all such cases the accused public official and institutions begin shifting responsibilities. Nominal commissions and committees are constituted to fix the responsibilities; at the end of the day, nothing, with exception to wastage of public revenue crystallizes.
The genuine culprits of multi-million dollar Kabul bank scandal, till date evade apprehension and prosecution. This is awesome to learn that two former chiefs of Afghanistan's Kabul Bank, Sherkhan Farnood and ex-CEO Khalilullah Ferozi have been sentenced to five years in jail for the multi-million dollar fraud that almost led to its collapse in 2010. This is a blatant joke with the judicial system of Afghanistan, indicative of the highest degree of manipulation. This depicts culprits enjoying strong political support couldn’t be formally pursued. A flimsy dented prosecution might be deemed as nothing more than a face saving act.
Undoubtedly, it was a $900m bank scandal, multiplying the concerns of international donors whilst risking the collapse of Afghanistan's fragile economy. The relatively light sentence extended to the two key players in the Kabul Bank scandal fueled concerns about government indifference to rampant corruption in the country. The brothers of President Hamid Karzai and the vice-president, Mohammad Fahim, were among the bank's shareholders, although they have not been prosecuted, and handling of the high-profile case has been seen by the international community as a litmus test of Kabul's desire to rein in corruption.
Many problems in the third world countries are associated with flawed or delayed fixation of responsibilities; the culprit either escape owning the unlawful activity or keep on shifting the responsibilities from one to another stakeholder. Finally, no one is brought to book and hence justice delayed is justice denied. Particularly, when justice is to be exercised against a high profile person, then the anticipation of recovery and evenhandedness die its natural death. The reason lies in superficial than deepening understanding of undertakings that earn us virtues in fact doesn’t.
The right dimension of an issue has ever been hazy, complicating the determination of proper solutions. There has ever been a wide chasm between thoughtful comprehension of obligation and veneration; in contemporary Afghan society one finds verbal utility the other overshadowed by heedless inculcation. Virtues, earnest faith, superior deeds and heavenly rewards, only come via repeated veneration, is widely propagated, negating the underlying worth of dutifulness. The binding principles of duties of immense significance are deemed inferior whilst religious dogma and set ritual superior. This is the state of superiority complex and the society suffering superiority complex, never rise to prominence, unless turn realistic.
One of rational outlook a realistic approach demand is self-reliance via self-dependence; we are regretfully deficient in. We are truthful and sincere to our obligations and responsibilities to a degree that is laudable in disguise. We have never helped ourselves; hence none of our problems lead to the ultimate solution. Neither, the political affairs are streamlined, nor the socioeconomic issues seek rightly directed. The time is advanced devoid of material gains. The distances travelled can’t take us forth to an ambiguous destination.
It is a renowned truism ‘God help those who help themselves’. The dictum reminds us of the deep lying worth of selfless accomplishment of duties. Nevertheless, we have thought out to get others commit our undertakings. Seeing the degree of reliance on others, rendered our innate capabilities dysfunctions, the aforesaid saying never justifies our standing. Consequently, we are likely not to execute our socio-political undertakings; resultantly every aspect of societal proceedings pleads crave attention and right direction.
Inhabiting in a constant state of denial is yet another problem overshadowing our collective wisdom. We advertently commit to disown the responsibilities for our committed and deliberate ill-deeds and mishaps instead bother not in shifting the responsibilities to another institution or official. Thus the guilt is neither fixed nor is guilty brought to book. It’s high time we demonstrate commitment to rise to eminence by setting examples of admitting and fulfilling our collective responsibilities.